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Slow Innovation, Easy Gig

Object Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Texas Instruments for 20 years
August 24, 2012
Dallas, Texas
2.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

If you want to just come to work and do a job until you retire, this is the place for you.

Software development is secondary to any Engineering or Manufacturing, so innovation turns really slowly in the Applications/Automations development areas.

If you're halfway good, this is a really easy gig that you can probably do in 8 hours a week of work and surf the net for the rest of the week (sans meetings).

Cons

Work with proprietary frameworks that no one on the planet other than TI employees have heard of. Coding standards are non-existent. No one has heard the terms of Technical Debt, factory pattern, or IOC. Low pay compared to market. Much of the commodity IT is being moved overseas, so you need to stay up nights talking with them on the phone since they can't work during our hours.

Advice to Management

Invest in the future of your IT staff.

Upper management states that we have training, but middle management turns down training requests.

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