Texas Instruments reviews about "manager"

Too frugal with equipment. Once I had an employee whose laptop had issues to the point of being unusable and it took months to get approval for the replacement. TI has a proud, rich history of innovation, but it seems to be fading in recent years as the focus has moved to simpler chips with a lower R&D cost.

depending on your manager, you can never go up in the corporate world.

However the company policies and management structure makes you do dependable on one person, that is your manager. They have not implemented matrix management or cross management structure, which makes an employee very vulnerable to the whims of the managerial hierarchy. They take away your normal holidays even for genuine medical leave (atleast most managers do that), which is something they can improve on. Specially if you are an international working on H1B, you need more than a few days a year to travel to your home country.

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.

got married and moved out of state. Was not given enough time to train even thou I gave two months notice. I was given somebody to train till just days before I left. Most of my open projects failed because of that. I felt bad but had to disconnect due to relocating issues. Since then, I have tried to come back and can't even get a email back with any applications I have sent in.

A small percentage of managers and supervisors practice bullying which taints some employee, supplier & customer experiences.

-If you work here, expect to work 24/7. Work/life balance is virtually nonexistent. I work at another company now, and I have never been happier. TI was my first job out of college, so I thought this was normal. It's not! Don't be scared of trying something new if you're not happy. -"Old boys club" culture. Comms and HR are trying hard to turn it around and offer fun activities like Jack Kilby Day, but as long as the company is full of disgruntled people, the culture will definitely not be turning around anytime soon. -Lack of transparency around processes/procedures, especially compensation cycle, leads to employees distrusting HR -Forced distribution rankings for performance = getting zeroed out for yearly raises, even when there is not a known performance concern. Very bad for morale/engagement! Especially in suffering business units.