Texas Instruments Reviews

1. March 10, 2020

"Working in DFAB at Texas Instruments"

Former Employee - Manufacturing Specialist in Dallas, TX
Doesn't Recommend
Disapproves of CEO

I worked at Texas Instruments full-time for less than a year

Pros

choice of shifts to accommodate personal life.

Cons

Not much to do with actual manufacturing. Mostly pushing loaded carts, scanning, loading and
unloading.

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• • October 2, 2019

"Do Not Work Here"

Former Employee - Technical Writer in Dallas, TX
Doesn't Recommend
Negative Outlook
No opinion of CEO

I worked at Texas Instruments full-time for more than 5 years

Pros

Flexible Hours, thats about it.

Cons

Terrible pay, no advancement potential, will keep you a contractor forever.

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• June 21, 2019
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"RFAB is Hostile"
Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Richardson, TX
Doesn't Recommend
Negative Outlook
Disapproves of CEO

I have been working at Texas Instruments full-time for more than a year

Pros

They have nice office cubes

Cons

Incompetent sr management. Most have no business managing people

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• • May 15, 2019

"Texas instruments was a wonderful place of employment. It

was the security company that I was employed with"
Former Employee - Security Guard in Dallas, TX
Doesn't Recommend
Positive Outlook
Disapproves of CEO

I worked at Texas Instruments full-time for less than a year

Pros

The people! Easy to work with

Cons

The security company were horrible

Advice to Management

Find a more professional security company

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• • May 14, 2019
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"Apparently HR has more say than engineers about their

own career path"
Former Employee - Applications Engineer in Dallas, TX
Doesn't Recommend
Positive Outlook
Approves of CEO

I worked at Texas Instruments full-time for more than a year

Pros

Work with Smart People Good Compensation Benefits Decent Work/Life Balance

Cons

HR gets in the way. Do not care about what their engineers want out of career. The rotation
program will throw into a random group as opposed to letting you grow in your field of interest
(Which is essentially shooting yourself in the foot)

Advice to Management

Let engineers hire engineers. Let engineers guide other engineers. Let engineering managers
decide paths for their engineers. Tell the HR folks and marketing folks to own up to their
mistakes.

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• • April 21, 2019

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"From Great to Living Nightmare"
Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
Doesn't Recommend
Neutral Outlook
Disapproves of CEO

I worked at Texas Instruments full-time

Pros

Good learning opportunities out of college. Profit sharing has been strong. First year was great,
then it turned into a nightmare.

Cons

All comments are my opinion. Do you enjoy having to cc your manager and their manager on
every email you send? How about weekly micromanaging sessions which you'll spend many
hours preparing for (but always get crapped on during)? Watching your team of ~5 all quit in the
last year or two? Management which is commonly referred to as "slave drivers?" All this while
being paid 40% under market value!? Bay Area compensation is truly awful. Don't think being
new to relocate there will help - I knew someone from a rotation program who was let go within
9 months due to reorg. He shared a room with 2 other people. Seriously, compensation is low.
What I learned is that there is a "culture of fear." All decisions are top down and all you are
supposed to say is yes. This place will kill your soul and make you woefully unprepared for
anywhere you actually have to be creative or think for yourself. Seems even after more than a
year in a new company that some still couldn't shake all the bad habits and it hampered their
ability to perform optimally (such as speaking up or coming up with ideas in a more open
culture). Management varies a lot in quality, had some great (all left within a year, smart), and
some truly evil managers. Even after a whole team left over a couple of years and managers kept
dropping like flies, nobody asked a single question of why that might be (terrible management). I
do think the company is aware and the awful management is purposeful to some degree. Cheaper
to get employees to quit than lay them off. Better to grind through people or only have the people
who don't know work life boundaries stay around. Or so the thinking goes. Tech is awful, large
parts of work should be automated and systematized. Management should be happy to hear large
parts of the job could be done away with. Does not work like a tech company under the hood. I
learned the irony of Silicon Valley being named after dinosaurs like this while real tech
companies push boundaries with their products, business model, operations, compensation, and
culture. No CRM. Seriously, everything is tribal knowledge, email chains, and spreadsheets
meticulously updated for many hours each week. Lots of early and late calls with Europe and
Asia while still needing to be butt in seat during normal hours. Innovation = cheaper, long gone
are the days of exciting new tech. Thanks for the depression, anxiety, and low pay, but I'll go
elsewhere.

Advice to Management

50 years after Andy Grove of Intel developed OKR's and a model for creating a great company
and TI still doesn't get it. Any of it. It's sad that tech companies like Google and hundreds of
others in different industries could take what works and use it, but TI in the same industry can't
or won't. I guess if your goals are unclear it is easier to throw you under the bus during review
time - for any reason really! Also, stop with the stock buyback BS. You're telling me the best
possible investment you can imagine making is in buying your own shares? Not in updating our
systems, paying closer to market rates, increasing capacity, or bringing in someone to clean up
the culture of fear? Weird, thousands of other companies all came to the same conclusion! I
guess it does help that the executives own millions in shares and their bonuses are tied to stock
performance. No creativity, just the same underinvestment in what matters that so many others
are doing.

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• • April 17, 2019

Helpful (2)

"Discrimination against women engineer"

Current Employee - Packaging Engineer in Dallas, TX
Doesn't Recommend
Disapproves of CEO

I have been working at Texas Instruments full-time

Pros

Good salary, flexible working hours, good bonus, large company

Cons
Bad management, discrimination against highly educated women, not being respected by your
manager, zero chance for career development for women at SC packaging

Advice to Management

Do not disregard and underestimate your employee with regards to their technical capabilities

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• March 21, 2019

"Wafer Fab Technician"

Doesn't Recommend
Negative Outlook
Approves of CEO

I have been working at Texas Instruments

Pros

Good benefits Fortune 500 Ethical Decent pay Good network of knowledge

Cons

Poor management. Unrealistic expectations. Poor communication between engineers and

technicians. Not time off to begin with.

Advice to Management

Learn how to communicate better. Realize that tools that are 25+ years old do not run like new
tools.

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• • February 16, 2019

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"Poor culture fit for millennials"
Former Employee - Product Marketing Engineer in Dallas, TX
Doesn't Recommend
Neutral Outlook
Disapproves of CEO

I worked at Texas Instruments full-time for more than 3 years

Pros

Money. Really the only reason to be there. For high performers, they will throw a ton of RSUs at
you as a retention strategy.

Cons

The culture is outdated and a good ol boys club. Nobody cares about the person next to them and
their only motivations are in self preservation.

Advice to Management

It is beyond repair.

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• • August 31, 2018

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"Sweatshop"
Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Santa Clara, CA
Doesn't Recommend
Neutral Outlook
Approves of CEO

I worked at Texas Instruments full-time for more than 5 years

Pros

Great engineers and great people overall. Lots of responsibilities and plenty of work to go
around. A great place to learn.

Cons

Strong execution, but poor decision making. There is a lack of good leadership at the Santa Clara
site. Management confuses blame as accountability. Fear is regarded as an effective management
tool. No development or training, you are expected to perform with minimal guidance. Work is
driven by punishment and sticks only. Great work often goes unappreciated but rather treat as
expected. Lots of fighting and no work life balance.

Advice to Management

Focus on promoting the right culture and right people. Create a safe working environment, and
make painful but necessary adjustments to ensure that happens. Accountability goes both ways.