Texas Instruments Application-Engineer reviews

1. Unreasonable working conditions, 80+ hours for minimum pay, this is slavery. 2. If you speak up, management will shut you down and retaliate 3. Upper and mid level managers are highly incompetent, non-technical, not even qualified to lead the business 4. They will push you until the breaking point with no bonus, no extra pay and spit you out once they’re done with you and replace you with a new college graduate until they burn them out as well. 5. Meetings on New Year’s Day and holidays, my manager called me for meetings and when I pushed back, they cut my bonus and retaliated. 6. Highly political place 7. Managers only care about their own career and bonus, they cut corners and costs. They try to run a workload of 10 people and with a team of 3 with unreasonable deadlines. 8. People come and leave with anxiety pills and frequent doctor visits 9. Mandatory 5 days a week in person show ups, HR is monitoring daily badge ins.

With TI removing the distributors, and with their FAEs have naturally taken on more sales-oriented responsibilities. Given that TI also has dedicated validation teams, the AE role appears to be evolving to fill a crucial gap, becoming more specialized and functioning like a product-focused FAE.