Texas Instruments IC Designer reviews

Over the last five years, management has moved in a very bad direction. Too much management change, inability to set a plan and stick with it long enough to get positive results. Micromanagement rife at every level, too many completely non-technical people in charge of technical people, bad news unacceptable. Evidence of "shoot the messenger" behavior. People are holding off from reporting bad news for fear of consequences. Increasing perception that upper management does not understand the value in experience. This is not healthy.

If you are a person with a technical career track in mind and yet you also want to be moving up in the management path, it is very difficult to do that in TI. TI is managed by sales oriented people. They might be running a company which could be selling anything. They happened to find themselves in the semiconductor field. So, either switch to marketing related roles (which are plenty by the way) and try your chances there or if you want to stay as a technical person, then accept the facts at the beginning and try to be content with your life with some other things.