Texas Instruments

There was a good body of knowledge within O&M/Engineering.

Beautiful location.

Lots of potential.

TI bought LFAB, and it became clear that legacy management was incompetent and incapable of improving. Engineering management had been running the site into the ground for decades. Many fled before the eventual massive round of layoffs; others stuck around and bowed out of their roles "voluntarily" into lower management roles.

There was no real desire to improve the site due to financials, as the company over-invested in LFAB2 while implementing absurd design "strategies" that reduced safety and amounted to corner-cutting for "cost savings".

TI took government money via the CHIPS Act and proceeded to lay off ~200-400 employees. So much for all of those "values".

Leave the industry. Spend time with your kids. You don't have what it takes to run an organization. You made a long career out of being mediocre. You got your little house on the hill in Draper and Saratoga and decided to coast while acting like you were hotshots. Reality check.