Texas Instruments Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Texas Instruments

Pros – I have some great colleagues who are always willing to help. There is also a good spirit inside the company with good and regular feedback mechanisms. Benefits packages are good and there has been (until now) excellent training avalable for personal and professional development.

Cons – It's a very large company, so there is a feeling on anonimity. This is even worse if you are in a satellite company away from the HQ - or even outside the US. We do struggle to compete against the big players in some markets and I feel a lack of commitment sometimes to be competitive.

Advice to Senior Management – Get a bit more consistent in your buniess approach. If we want to get into a buiness / opportunity area we need to stick at it and resource it properly. I have see many instances where we hae changed direction 90% of the way towards getting the biz. This destroys customer confidence. Lets drop the soundbites and get some real actions going.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Texas Instruments

Pros – Prestigious company for an analogue design engineer
Nice benefits and

Cons – Awful locations
No choice of career path rather the one imposed by HR
Far away sites are not considered by HQ

Advice to Senior Management – Give people choice for their careers

Current Employee – been working at Texas Instruments full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – -- Work life balance
-- Compensation
-- Work culture

Cons – -- Focus going forward is shifting towards analog.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Texas Instruments full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – TI puts a lot of effort into making sure that employees feel valued and are taken care of...as much as any large, publicly held company can. As a contractor I felt little different than a direct hire. That is a rarity in any industry.

Cons – Constant reorganizations make it difficult to establish efficient processes.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop trying to refine the organizational mix and let it simmer for a while. Constant upheavals make people nervous and unproductive.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Texas Instruments full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – - Focused in analog - very strong engineers you can work with
- has an amazing sales force - great for sales and marketing roles
- flexible to allow lateral movement
- provides travel opportunities
- marketing is given importance
- situated in Texas, low cost of living

Cons – - Dallas could be boring for some
- very big company, hard to shine out
- progression may be slower than expected as you get higher up
- some work can get routine
- a lot of tight deadlines and firefighting can compromise work-life balance

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Texas Instruments full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Big company with a lot of opportunities; long history and you can learn a lot of product knowledge; good for starters

Cons – Very aggressive on business goals; mid to high work loading; more working on short term goals

Advice to Senior Management – more innovations; more care on employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Texas Instruments full-time

Pros – Good reputation, I always meet someone who had mom or dad retire from here. Good benefits

Cons – Can become very political, so be prepared.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to review each depaartment

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Texas Instruments full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Talented engineering, sales driven, and strong ethics. Always feel challenged with a strong support infrastructure to help assist in securing customer commitments. Huge portfolio and sales instrastructure WW.

Cons – High stress and pressure environment for sales. Recognizing achievement few and far between; breadth of product impressive, but differentiated in few areas. Growing overhead of reporting taking away from investment at customers.

Advice to Senior Management – Growing overhead of reporting taking away from focus at customers. Finding the appropriate balance is critical to keep teams motivated.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Texas Instruments full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Highly technical people
Good projects to work on
Good training

Cons – Too many layoffs
Some groups too plolitical.

Advice to Senior Management – Trust the experience of the engineers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Texas Instruments full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Diversity of the workforce and the diversity of assignments that you could work on were very broad.

Cons – It tends to be very internally focused, not as open to outside ideas and inputs and might be beneficial.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't give up on basic research. TI has a great history of building products that came out of the central research function and I'm afraid that that innovative streak is declining.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend