Texas Instruments reviews

There has been a 'layoff culture' for so long that even my father (older than I want to admit) heard about this when I was just a little boy living in Dallas and had no idea I'd ever work for TI. Managers are often simply going to toe the company line and won't stand up for what is right or ethical (not talking about ethical practices dealing with customers, rather with employees), Seniority is king, doesn't much matter what you do if you've made it into the structure of the company, even down to the operator level. New ideas are usually squelched as 'that's not the way we do it here'. Hard to make it as a newer employee if your manager and coworkers have been there decades. Upper management is simply unaware of very much that goes on and really couldn't be bothered to remedy it even if they took time to become aware of various situations.

Sales management in particular (in the Sunnyvale office) is very unreasonable and always attacking it's employees. On top of everything, there is no flexibility in sales styles, where they expect people to be driving the customer and anything else is perceived as ineffective. Relationship building with the customer is of no value to sales management.