Pros: * Fairly competitive compensation. * Family atmosphere.

Cons: Internal organization is complex, and separate entities are not responsive to each other. (For example, IT does very little in response to requests from the revenue-generating entities. It sets policies, and everyone works around it. This makes TI feel like an IT company with incidental manufacturing instead of a hardware manufacturer with a supporting IT organization.) Many support functions are self-service as a part of some cost-cutting initiative. Many good roles in software engineering have been outsourced to India, leaving few opportunities for advancement in America. Some incentives, like the professional ladders, are purely symbolic and, in any case, awarded based on the votes of peers instead of management assessment of performance, which feels like an evasion, a way to get around giving promotions for exceptional performance. Too many internal conferences with paper presentations. It feels like they're trying to create an academic culture in areas where it isn't warranted or beneficial.

Pros: Promotion, bonus, management, technology, vacations

Cons: overloaded work, communications, vacations, sick days

Pros: Lots to learn, potential to grow skills portfolio. Company values staff in leadership roles.

Cons: Information Technology workers are not valued. Company uses "Targeted Probation" to rid the company of older employees. IT no longer does the right thing when it comes to reducing its workforce. After nearly 35 years of dedicated service, I was set up to fail and removed from the company via a PIP. No severance package, no goodbye lunch, and my boss was 4 hours late to the exit meeting.