Texas Instruments

There are no pros for this company unless you’re moving from Samsung.

Tool to technician ratio. Dishonest hiring strategies. Pay. Environment. Work life balance.

At this company, there are a number of technicians with the same years of experience, same tool set experience, and even coming from the exact same position at the same company at the same time that make drastically different hourly pay. We are talking 12+ dollars an hour difference!

This is because one asked for a low number, thinking that is typical pay for the industry, and the other asked high. I work with a guy on night shift that makes $28 an hour, while his friend is making $40 an hour with less experience for the same exact position.

Management and HR openly accept people at low amounts and then question why they leave later. This is bad business, in my opinion.

My discussion with my supervisors, while attempting to “retain” me, included them factoring in my night shift differential as my pay. They use this to compare against a higher hourly day shift position and act as if this is why your pay is what it is.

A night shift differential is given because nobody wants night shift and you are missing out on time with your family, so they pay you an extra amount based on that aspect. It is not to make the same hourly as a dayshift equivalent position while working nights!

Do yourself a favor and go to a company that will pay you what you’re worth and not just what you say the minimum you’ll accept is. There are much better options and much better environments to spend your days at! Check Broadcom and Qorvo first before landing here. Don’t short yourself while performing more work than you would at almost any other company.

Work with new potential hires so they understand when they are asking for an extremely low hourly wage, especially when they’re coming from the same company 😂.

Work on daily shift meetings and employee attitudes.

Night shift gets criticized for every action they take in a meeting with supervisors and engineers, while day shift holds absolutely no accountability for anything they do or don’t do during the day since there are no managers or engineers in their pass-down at all.

Have a proper training team ready for new hires versus the current technicians that just have negative things to say about the tools or other technicians' work. It sets a bad stage for the remaining time your new hires will spend at your facility.