Texas Instruments reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(5,727 total reviews)
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56% positive business outlook

Texas Instruments has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,727 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Texas Instruments employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Jun 21, 2022
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Pros

TI is a large, diverse company. The rotation program is perfect for those straight out of college to meet other people their age, get exposed to a wide range of the businesses end-to-end, and contribute (or even lead) high-impact projects. I fully believe this is one of the best first jobs for highly motivated graduates. I found lifelong mentors and friends, traveled internationally for conferences and customer meetings, and jump-started my career as a product marketer due to the volume, range, and impact of my responsibilities. The profit sharing, stock purchase plan, 401k match, and PTO are generous.

Cons

This is an extremely stressful job. The extent of that is highly driven by which business unit you are assigned and your manager, but in general the company brings in high-achieving graduates excited to join the workforce and exploits them for their energy and willingness to take on too much or stretch themselves too thin. We had multiple calls with our colleagues in India or China that lasted until past 10PM every week , every email from sales was immediately escalated, and the range of our responsibilities was so broad I never had clear focus about my goals except "increase revenue". We were constantly hammered by sales to lower our prices and destroy the market value just so they could sell a different part on the BOM at a higher price. On top of all that, the entire business unit would be constantly preparing for quarterly business reviews, annual planning, or deep dives so that our senior management could keep their jobs rather than us doing actual work. When I put in my 2 week notice, I was told to keep it a secret from the team until the very last day because the team couldn't be distracted from preparing for one of these meetings. The core mindsets and behaviors were drilled into us and used against us to push us to work harder, for longer hours, without so much as a line or two of positive feedback. There's tons of opportunity to do a lot, learn skills, and pad your resume, but internal upward mobility is extremely competitive. TI has a very political office culture and who you know will or get face-time with will determine if you move up or not. The type of person that would want a job like this probably doesn't want to coast or take an unchallenging job, but this company pushes people in this role beyond their limit and gaslights them to think its normal. That is not something I'd recommend to my younger self.

4.0
Mar 4, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Okay, let's get into the weeds shall we? Compressed work week (CWW) shifts, which command your presence for 12.5 hours (1 hour is an unpaid 1 hour lunch), the employee is paid 8 hours straight-time and 3.5 hours at time and a half - each day! CWW shifts have a bi-monthly pay period so one week consists of 3 days and the next is 4 days. Each day consisting of 12.5 hours physically present and 11.5 of those hours being calculated for payroll. Therefore, one week has 24 straight-time and 10.5 over-time hours and the second week has 29.5 straight-time hours with 16.5 over-time hours. Remember to calculate correctly! Although each day is calculated for over-time, the second week reaches it's 40-hour limit on the 4th day after only 5.5 hours so the 5 hours remaining on the 4th day is all over-time not just the 3.5 hours as calculated in the days previous. Also, night shift employees enjoy a 15% differential which is factored in so that straight-time is equal to 1.15 times their base-rate and over-time is calculated at 1.725 times their base-rate! Absolutely delicious!

Cons

Unable to find where Texas Employment law is requiring Texas Instruments to pay their employees in this manner. Therefore, this payment structure could all fade at any given time.

3.0
Feb 10, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Decent company and decent benefits. Good mentoring from the experienced, but rapidly shrinking experienced workforce. Most managers are understanding of work life balance. Good profit sharing maxing out at 20% for the last few years. Discounted employee stock options with 15% discount. 4% 401k company match. Best chance for promotion is in managerial ladder. Big company with many groups makes it easy to move around while maintaining benefits, learning different roles and functions, and obtaining experience. Each group can have very different work environment and culture. Work tends to be highly involved with local offices and customers in China, India, and Europe. Good set of company values. Large field group with prescence in many countries. Lately taking some efforts to improve diversity in upper management and technical ladder. Some managers are very good and do not micromanage their direct reports.

Cons

Some really awful managers that somehow maintain their position through the years. Little diversity in technical ladder with big emphasis on design engineers. Hard to get promoted in the technical ladder. Extreme cost cutting on employee computers, software, and IT departments, while company pays for a lot of customer visits and travel. High push for security and locking down computer resources that gets in the way of doing your job. Very old lab equipment with very long process for any capital expenses. Mostly hiring new college graduates. Most innovation is just incremental, not given much latitude to experiment. Due to large number of new college graduates, experienced workers spend a lot of time training new employees. Most new college graduates do not stay more than 5 years, so experienced engineers are constantly training people. Prepare for many early morning and late evening meetings due to working with co-workers in China and India. Centralized labs facilities are very noisy, crowded benches, small or no monitors, and difficult to concentrate. Some open office areas deter collaboration rather than foster it due to distracting noise. Management highly focused on short term gains rather than more involved and well thought long term plans. For example, big push to sell what we have and have very short design cycles were features are removed, instead of trying to understand why a device does not sell and spend the time to make a better device. Most employee career focus is just for new college graduates, so experienced workers tend to stall and leave the company. Your salary growth is highly dependent on your initial hiring salary. Hard to catch up if you fail to negotiate a good salary or we’re hired close to a recession. You might find yourself a few years down the road earning less than a new college graduate a few years down the road. Texas locations suffer from personnel that have highly partisan views that does not favor science and regard for facts. Little diversity at upper management that has seen some advances in the last few years. Some filed personnel are not very technical and act as salesmen.

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