TSP reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(270 total reviews)
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Frank Gonzalez

84% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

TSP has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 270 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The TSP employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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270 reviews
4.0
Jan 30, 2018

Texas Instruments Contract

Anonymous employee
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Pros

This is a great place to get your foot in the door of IT. TSP has a great vision and a lot of great people working for the company!

Cons

It seems that the job managers and the TSP managers are very good and have great intentions but I think there is a disconnect somewhere in between. The work and home balance are off. In order to be good at your job and succeed you need to dedicate more than 40 hours a week. Pay is decent but competitively it is way below most other companies in the area.

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TSP Response
8y
Thank you for taking the to write a review about your experience with TSP so far – we do truly appreciate the candid feedback provided. I absolutely hear you with respect to the struggle of trying to balance your work life and your personal life – it’s something that we all either deal with or have dealt with it. Sometimes the work/life imbalances are the result of things unforeseen or effectively out of our control, or even things that are simply the nature of a specific contract or even the industry in general, i.e. occasionally being on call or those occasional emergency dispatches. If you do feel as though the amount of time being spent at work is becoming too much or it is negatively affecting your personal life, we strongly encourage you to have a conversation with your manager so we can help rectify the issue and help you find that balance that all employees need. With regards to your comment regarding our pay scales being competitively low, TSP does benchmark and market our compensation structures annually; however, many times customers directly influence the pay rates by what they are allowing us to bill them. You may or may not know that we implemented a system late in 2016 that notified managers of their team member who hadn't had their salary revisited in over a year. This led to a record number of employee change forms being submitted and approved, and a little over $1M in merit increases being awarded to our hard-working employees. However, we always do encourage employees to have conversations with their managers if they feel an increase in pay is warranted. Thanks again for the review and keep up the great work!
2.0
Jan 15, 2018

PSA

Recommend
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Pros

Lovely manager, lovely coworkers for the most part.

Cons

Company is absolutely terrified of losing TI contract

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TSP Response
8y
Thank you for your contributions during your time with TSP. Moreover, thank you for providing this thoughtful and careful review of your time with us. You raised valid concerns that we have identified and are actively working towards addressing. The desire for higher pay is not falling on deaf ears. We do benchmark and market our compensation structures annually. Unfortunately, many of our pay rates are dictated by client bill rates. The simple fact of the matter is, if we continue to increase an employee's pay year-after-year without increases from the customers to our bill rates, we eventually risk going into the red. Keep in mind that TSP’s profit margin doesn't even come into equation – we're talking about a for-profit company essentially functioning as a non-profit where we aren't making any margin. To help counter any pay discrepancies or potential oversight, we’ve put into place a system to notify our management team of an employee who has not had a pay increase in the previous year. As a direct result, the number of employee change forms being submitted and approved last year with just under $1M in merit increases being awarded to our deserving employees. TSP doesn’t want to lose any clients and is fully committed to providing each client with an entirely positive, above and beyond service experience. As we continue to grow and diversify, new sales efforts are needed to find our next batch of enterprise customers. As such, TSP has just announced their largest reorganization to date along with naming a vice president of sales to lead this organization in 2018 and beyond. We absolutely appreciate your candid feedback and insight. The feedback we receive – like yours – is heard and taken seriously. Thanks again for being one of our #TSProckstars – we wish you the best.
2.0
Nov 30, 2017

An average MSP, in contracts with some difficult clients

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some very good folks work there Opportunities for growth but they come with caveats They seem to know and care about the issues they are currently facing

Cons

Those very good folks, who work the hardest, get worked 3x as hard as anyone else and abused. Saying yes means they will add more to your plate at an accellerating rate. They have contracts with some clients who openly treat their contractors as second class citizens in every way. Expect overly difficult conversations and so on because you are not one of the team, just an outsider with an opinion that might or might not be considered. Opportunities for growth occur because there aren't enough people and the ones in place are underqualified (for reasons listed below) They have known for quite some time about the issues, and do seem to care, but also seem pretty powerless to solve them, or unwilling to if it costs money Pay is typically not competitive in most cases Underqualified candidates are always considered first for new positions because they cost less and cost trumps quality every time Benefits are good and bad, but follows the - what was cheapest for them to acquire - model Very little to no control over what situations their employees are put into with the clients they serve. A sense of service is great, but it goes too far here where every request from the client is responded to with an immediate Yes instead of questions of scope, timelines, goals, strategy, current workloads The harder you work, the harder they will expect you to work. The hardest workers get the worst treatment every time. The more you try, the less work/life balance you will enjoy.

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TSP Response
8y
Thank you for your time and contributions while you were at TSP and thank you for providing this thoughtful and careful review of your time with us. You bring up some very valid concerns that we have identified as well this year, and are actively working towards addressing. For example, we have cancelled a handful of customer contracts this year that in short, and frankly, were not good customers. We definitely still have some work to do, but in our growth phase, it's nice to be at a point to tell a customer, "no." I also hear you on pay and we are trying to actively correct this as well. We do benchmark and market our compensation structures annually; however, many times customers directly influence the pay rates by what they are allowing us to bill them. This again goes back to the previous paragraph and us being better at telling customers, "no." You may or may not know that we implemented a system late in 2016 that notified managers of their team member who hadn't had their salary revisited in over a year. This led to a record number of employee change forms being submitted and approved, and a little over $1M in merit increases being awarded to our hard-working employees. Benefits are also benchmarked each year and while there is always room for improvement in this ever-changing landscape, I would by no means say we are acquiring the cheapest model. TSP pays on average 80% of the total benefit costs leaving employees with only the remaining 20%. We definitely appreciate your advice and thoughts. I'm very confident that the organizational restructure that we are currently undergoing as well as some new year initiatives that are already underway will have a very positive impact on TSP in 2018 and beyond. Thanks again for being one of our #TSProckstars and we wish you nothing but the best in your next career journey. We appreciate you and the feedback!
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