TI used to be a great place to work, but not any more - Anonymous employee Texas Instruments Employee Review

Non-stop reorg and lay-off recently. People just don't feel stable and secure working for TI these days. Virtually no opportunity for engineers to advance their careers. TI has essentially stopped investing in its digital side business especially DSPs, which it used to dominate even 5-6 years ago. All upper and middle management are now coming from the sales side and has no clue nor interest in technology. All the emphasis is on sales and marketing. In the past several quarters, TI spend more money buying back its own stocks than investing in R&D. This speaks loudly about what TI is really about these days.TI's internal cost control is to such extreme that it has become even laughable in certain aspects. For example, replacing 4-5 year old PCs has been really difficult if not impossible. This results in big loss of productivity in return for a few hundred dollars of savings.