Texas Instruments Product Manager reviews

In my division, there seems to be a lot of middle level managers who have been risen beyond their technical competence, and are mostly incapable or not-enabled to make technical decisions. There are a large number of contractors, of varying competencies, who are managed by employees who spend more time babysitting than actually being individually productive.

Some folks are very opinionated and bull headed, which is probably true at every company. Within TI’s culture, these folks seem really painful. If they are a worker – management will talk to them. If they are a manager, they have free reign. Despite all the layoffs, stupid and lazy people still exist. Layoffs focus too much on impacting a given area, rather than getting rid of the deadwood and moving people around between organizations or disciplines. The deadwood population is probably only 5%, but I want 0.