Texas Instruments reviews

Management, at times, seems to repeat pendulum swing reactions to competitive threats or changing market conditions regarding people and investments. At other times, the wait is too long to get out. Lastly, managers at all levels need encouragement and reassurance especially in tough economic times when resource levels are under scrutiny. It's even harder to make difficult decisions when you are worried about your own job security.

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.