Pros
An impressive operations strategy and execution has led to fantastic company profits. Employee pay reflects that, especially those with equity. Lots of opportunity to move geographically and TI will try to hold onto good employees who need to move for personal reasons. If you want to travel, you can travel in the right role to your heart’s content. You’ll work with good people from all over the world. The work is generally interesting with opportunities to learn new things.
Cons
Feedback from the bottom is, at best, not really encouraged and, at worst, actively discouraged. There is no mechanism for holding managers accountable to their employees beyond creating an HR issue or the employee going head-to-head with their own manager (which is toxic to anyone who touches it). Employee annual pay reviews happen behind closed doors with no employee input. (You have five years of good-excellent reviews, but this year had a poor review because your boss is going through a divorce and can’t separate personal issues from work? Too bad, no one in management asks why a good employee turned bad, you just have to suck it up.) There is no company culture to prioritize managers actively communicating to employees to make sure they don’t get surprised by a bad end-of-year review. Employee development is solely up to the discretion of the manager as it’s not a mandatory part of the TI management culture.