Texas Instruments

• Fairly competitive compensation.
• Family atmosphere.

Internal organization is complex, and separate entities are not responsive to each other. (For example, IT does very little in response to requests from the revenue-generating entities. It sets policies, and everyone works around it. This makes TI feel like an IT company with incidental manufacturing instead of a hardware manufacturer with a supporting IT organization.)

Many support functions are self-service as a part of some cost-cutting initiative.

Many good roles in software engineering have been outsourced to India, leaving few opportunities for advancement in America.

Some incentives, like the professional ladders, are purely symbolic and, in any case, awarded based on the votes of peers instead of management assessment of performance, which feels like an evasion, a way to get around giving promotions for exceptional performance.

Too many internal conferences with paper presentations. It feels like they're trying to create an academic culture in areas where it isn't warranted or beneficial.

Find some way to discipline organizations like IT, and return services like ordering computers to internal agents, such as members of IT or employees' managers, instead of external partners who seem to add no value.