Texas Instruments reviews

The pressure can be rather intense at times and I could understand why some people couldn’t deal with it. There is also a large scale problem with not address the performance of people who do not contribute which by itself is kind of bad. The problem with that is they try to pass those responsibilities onto their top performers instead of addressing the people that aren’t doing their jobs. This puts extra pressure on people who are doing their jobs.

- Lots of reorgs. Some reorgs have minimal affect on day-to-day, whereas some significantly change your experience. A reorg can cause a great group turn into a toxic group, despite staying in the same role - WLB/culture depends on the management. There are bad teams where you aren't respected, have higher demands with less resources, and expected to work long hours and be on call 24/7... And your work is never good enough. The high amount of stress felt by everyone turns into a very toxic, blaming culture - Poor WLB. They have an old school view that if you're not in the office every day, coming in early and staying late and then continuing to work late nights at home means, then you're not a hard worker. - In the last 5 years, I've had 5 managers. Hard for career development and valid performance reviews (which ultimately affects pay) if you have a new manager (or two or three) every year. - Limited resources. People have left but there are no replacements - Cost cutting culture. Cutting costs does not result in long term innovation - Pay is not competitive. They try to compensate with RSUs/Stock options, but RSUs vesting after 4 years (0/0/0/100) is really bad compared to the rest of the tech industry. Stock options have been underwater so they're useless - In a down market, you're stuck in your current group