Progress is only made if the higher-ups allow it. - Photolithography Process Engineer Texas Instruments Employee Review

2.0
Nov 18, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Very safety-oriented. Profit-sharing is nice. Overtime is great, if you can signup early enough for it. I would like for more to be done, but that's not what they would like to spend their money on.

Cons

When bringing up issues, like non-working equipment, lack of support equipment or concerns of trying to meet a quota without all the aforementioned machinery necessary to do so, it can take up to 11-15 months for any progress to be made. Even if it is directly impacting production, morale or causing excessive employee turnover. New supervisors tend to not know the intricacies of the job that the people they are managing are doing. I had a supervisor ask a question, which I could only equate to: Imagine you worked in bakery and your supervisor of over a year, turned to you and asked, "Why do we have an oven?", "What's with all this 'flour' you say you need to run this business?", "Why do we have tons of cake frosting in the storeroom?" It was a 'are you being serious right now' moment. This supervisor was, in fact, being serious. (This was a supervisor who was making MORE than us, yet they didn't even know how our machines worked, or know of the other 2-dozen factors that can inhibit production to our department. They just said we needed to "do better at making quota.")

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5.0
Apr 6, 2026
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Pros

very flexible with rotational program. They really care about each employee.

Cons

Not very remote friendly. Some times can feel like a cog in the machine.

3.0
May 30, 2026
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Pros

Great learning opportunity, would recommend to new college grads Above average pay for the industry Very friendly colleagues who want to transfer knowledge WLB is team dependent

Cons

Team has reduced to 1/3 of original size in less than 2 years, but BU is mostly hiring in India Refuses to hire externally in US (only internal reqs) to fill roles lost from attrition, instead management dumps responsibilities on rest of team members (with no pay raise to match) Management refused to address 2025 layoffs, employee morale is very low Limited mobility and (capped) yearly performance bonus Restructured profit sharing to effectively be a pay cut (-7%) Unclear job description, constantly changing priorities, management is out of touch with employees Innovation isn't emphasized, new products are mostly IP re-use Employee burn-out common Definite decline in work culture since 2023 RSU vesting schedule is bad (4 years)

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