Texas Instruments

Benefits, casual work environment, stable company even in the current economy. Depending on your position, they are not critical of work scheduled. Some jobs require the employee to be on-site certain hours, while others are more flexible.

The IT support area is a mix of languages that should be consolidated into a few.

Autoshell is used for machine control which, however non-standard, works.

The reporting side uses many, many languages and structures: Java, Perl, C, TCL, PHP, .NET, and more.

The Java side uses a proprietary framework that was created before Struts and does not allow for internal test-driven development or any testing for that matter.

From the corporate side, there are decisions that are held away from employees when management should be more upfront. This has affected morale for the whole company.

Another issue is the amount of raises. I have always received perfect scores on my reviews but only received one raise in six years. I even get messages from upper managers saying how glad they are that I worked on whatever project.

However, they keep saying that I'm topped out, but I know others are making more for the same position. The proof is on this site.

Give workers the ability to bring the IT area up to current programming standards. Try to keep the good workers, because if you don't, they will move on when the economy picks up. TI has already lost several good people because of poor raises.