Texas Instruments reviews

Some bad people also rise quickly! Management has ceased to listen to the engineers. Sales and marketing droids lead the company from the product line manager position to the top. These people overestimate their capability in judging where the markets are heading (see our cellphone business for the proof) and do not have the technical wherewithal to make sound decisions. A handful of "chosen ones" are picked from the crowd and these people are quickly promoted up in their careers regardless of their total lack of competency. They are promoted from low level manager to leaders of $100MM+ business units in a few years and have zero technical skills and no leadership capabilties. They are never kept in one position long enough for their stupidity to shine through. Individual contributors are increasingly being treated as common labor. If you don't fit the clean-cut salesboy mold, you're never going to move up the managerial chain.

Very difficult to keep some one who wants to advance in their career or rotate job functions to understand the company better. While the tech ladder is there to promote people who are individial contributors there is no clear career path for people who want to transition to the management ladder. It is mostly based on an old-boys network or who you worked with in groups before. No training program for new hires. It is difficult to motivate people who want to contribute more . Not many women in management roles across all groups in TI. Career growth for women is as good as who your manager is ( which is a risky proposition) and how supportive they are. There is always a concern that women may not make the tough decisions as good as men.