Texas Instruments reviews about "upper management"

Top heavy and driven by upper management that are little more than bean counters. No regard to innovation or staying abreast of technology.

There is a lot of politics. Upper management does not care about individual employees. There is too much reorganization in most BUs every year.

Entitlement mentality towards uncompensated labor from middle and upper management. Highly political and sometimes bullying environment, entrenched mediocrity in middle management, "blame the troops" backstabbing from incompetents. Managers and employees who understand and accept the status quo of "needing" to be highly political take credit for the work of others who won't or haven't figured out how to play the political game. Unspoken but well known mafia system where those who get made survive all layoffs regardless of whether they maintain their business or technical edge, and get to wet their beaks at the bonus pool whether they put in a strong contribution for the year or not. Company and upper management shift the product strategy and cede markets to nimbler competitors with regularity. Poor documentation & dissemination of company specific technical knowledge means that such knowledge resides only with those who are willing to throw work/life balance in the trash and do organizationally inefficient individual from-scratch learning (basically reverse engineering the company's own IP), creating a perverse differentiator for compensation and advancement , a two-class technical staff, and key personnel risks for the company. If you are a talented and creative individual, you are selling yourself incredibly short by becoming a lifer here.

Only people on the fast track seem to get career advances. Upper management not capable and short sighted. Good at the identifying a new market and get in quickly, but not able to fully captivate the market. Always exit quickly whenever things not looking good, lack of long term commitment and investment to any true gamer-changing technologies.

Compensation is pretty average, bonuses are below average, and the time bank system is a bit odd. Benefits are below average from what I've seen other companies provide and they keep cutting back on how much they'll spend on benefits and the perks that are provided seem to keep disappearing. Too much management in the way to get an idea heard and new projects are slow to get through the system to get traction on due to old style management structure.

Gone through many reorganizations, restructuring resulting into job transfers and layoffs. Bottom line, share holders upper management willing to appease investers including compromising job security for all. Your valuable one day and the next your expendable.

Depending on your team, you may or may not get visibility with upper management for your contributions/success. I have been lucky to have good, ambitious supervisors but know of others who are not so lucky. Travel to customer sites is usually restricted to upper echelons of management. Frequent restructuring while understandable financially, can tend to demotivate employees if the reasons are not clearly and crisply specified.