Texas Instruments

There are very intelligent people at Texas Instruments. I am continually impressed by the caliber of people I work with and meet peripherally outside my particular business unit.

From what I understand, the benefits are comparable for a company this size.

It is surprising that a collection of such intelligent people does not yield better results. The motto seems to be 'do more with less' taken to an extreme.

Work/life balance takes a severe hit when resources are assigned on the edge of reality. You can only pad a schedule so much when the resources for a project are pulled in many directions.

There is also not much feedback on performance other than a yearly compensation review. This process is somewhat shrouded for an individual contributor.

Listen to your employees, even the individual contributors.

There are a lot of good ideas out there that are getting squashed because of ego and/or hierarchy.

Also, there needs to be better information sharing between business units. There seems to be a good bit of duplicate work going on and lessons learned that are "relearned" over again years later.