Texas Instruments Product Test Engineer reviews

Advancement and opportunities are more dependent on your timing (joining the group), mentorship (find one), your soft skills (like-ability, communications, appearance) and your internal management's capability to advocate your skills, rather than your technical skills and work ethic alone. It's a very inaccurate expectation to think that performance and hard work alone pays off in any corporate culture. This is not a TI specific "con" its a hard lesson for all employees of any larger corporations.

There are a few bad groups and managers(just like any company). H1 Visas and college hires is a big strategy for hiring. For many years, TI was called Training Institute(hiring college graduates). They are back in that mode during the recession. Three years ago, there were 30 percent H1 visas. Now it is 60 percent walking down the corridor. They are on the edge of segregation per language barrier, but hey still have a chance to prevent this problem. You have to watch how their technology is not standardized with other companies. They build many systems internal and unique. Not good during a downturn.