Q&A With Texas Instruments Employees

Mostly cool. Seems like we have an ever expanding group of freeloaders though. Only about 2/3 of the tech force actually works. The rest are busy with busy work trying to look important.

Most are very helpful and friendly.

Varies. Depends on the position being applied for.

How do you solve problems?

Varies with area you work in-

Typical cubicle environment. Fair amount of cross-talk between cubes and hallway conversations. Mostly quiet, but we do celebrate successes!

Multi person panels face to face. Mostly laid back but some engineers have their pet questions to try and stump potential employees.

usually 2 or 3 rounds plus phone screen. 1 panel interview , and 1-1 interview.(sometime a team meet- kind of panel interview)

Multi-step process, meeting with different levels of the organization. Looking for culture fit almost as much as technical aptitude. When I was interviewed, I had three interviews on three consecutive days and the offer was made on the fourth day.

Business casual. Hardly ever see a suit/tie here. Nice slacks/Dockers/kakis with nice button down shirt. Jeans/boots are not abnormal either. It is Texas.

Business Casual

I think the balance at TI has shifted a bit too much in favor of efficiency and good financial returns. I think some of that focus should be shifted to more R&D investment in their growth sectors to improve the odds that they can continue to grow and compete in the future. TI has an edge in many market sectors because of their name, historical relationships, and their deep device catalogue. But that lead could erode over time if they are not willing to make similar R&D investments to their competitors. TI is pushing to hire great young engineers and they make an effort to reward performance. But they also need to make sure they are emphasizing growth and engineering as strongly as financial performance if they want to excite and entice those engineers to stick around.

Reporting to managers in local offices might make things easier.

Time bank (time off) is accrued monthly. There is no emergency/sick time. It all comes out of the same pot. Of you call in more than once a year it is reflected negatively on your annual review.

Generous if you stick around. If you are new hire you accrue it monthly. Starting with 3 weeks to be used for any sick time or vacations - plus 9 holidays. Then you get an extra half-day per year or something like that. There's a bigger bump after the 5th year.

They will be around for another 50 years I'm sure. Most feel the glory days of TI being front and center of the tech world are over though. They are good at manufacturing wafers though.

Annual raises but they seldom keep up with the increased cost of living. TI explains it away by using your annual profit sharing as a carrot.....which has been capped as well. Thereby reducing the value of the profit sharing. By capping the profit sharing and flat lining raises it has killed the individual incentive to go beyond what is required to remain employed. A lot of dead weight at TI just coasting.

Happens regularly.

United way and a lot of others.

Given at beginning of each month= amount grows as you gain longevity.

good- ability to move is visable

lots of volunteer options, and clubs- sports teams-

Give examples of how you problem solve-

Good success rate with interns moving to full time TI'ers

The Ability to communicate effectively.

TI is a mature company in a rapidly developing industry. We innovate incrementally a lot, explosively occasionally.

If you drive change for the sake of improving the overall process by which we execute our jobs, you will get recognized. Failure is OK, as long as you learn lessons. Idea-sharing is critical.

Pay is above average, profit sharing is outstanding, benefits are good. Extremely ethically responsible company and very involved in supporting the global communities in which we work. Financially stable.

Very flexible. As long as the people you work with know how to get in touch with you and your presence at the office isn't required on a given day, you can work wherever you choose.

It's good but you definitely work for it.

Good for finances but wish he would invest more in research & dev.

i don't know the policy but if you have to move orvthe office moves andvyou can't, and you can work it out so it doesn't affect productivity, I've seen it happen. It's kind of rare though.

Whoever is best for the job