Texas Instruments

Competitive compensation and good work/life balance.

Lots of cool company events and programs.

It is a pretty easy place to work if you aren't really looking to move up the corporate ladder and you just want to duck your head, do your job, and collect a paycheck.

If you are the ambitious type, then expect to play lots of political games.

Highly competitive work environment, sometimes toxic. Lots of politics and backstabbing.

It is a "blame" culture. People are afraid to take responsibility for projects or decisions for fear of making a mistake, getting blamed, and having their reputation at TI destroyed.

TI's business fluctuates a lot, so layoffs are fairly common, and everyone is always playing a game of musical chairs to avoid them.

The company is actually run very well from a business standpoint.

Unfortunately, the culture is not attractive for top-tier software developers (in my opinion).

But TI is not a software company, so I doubt that matters to them.