Ventajas
Their paychecks won't bounce. Profit Sharing is offered. You could get advancement if you jump high enough. Templeton stopped saying "agh" 250 times during his updates.
Desventajas
Each business unit treats other business within TI units like a competitor. Management has effectively created this. If you get a design win it was luck...If you lose a socket it was your fault. Useful training is absolutely impossible to obtain. The whole peer/mentor system has shut-down. No one has time to train you, they are too busy trying to get their projects moving along. Management will show up and schedule you for a meeting and ask "So, what have you been doing". Management will release proclamations to save money and basically cut off all tools you used to use and implement new ones. Then give you no time to learn the new tools but your project better not suffer. Kind of like, you shall make bricks without straw. Oh my gosh...I realized I am starting to hate it there. How in the hell did they get on the list for one of the happiest places to work? All I see are miserable people. Except for the ones always dishing out the work. They seem happy they don't have to shovel. Also, someone has stolen my laptop. I left to get coffee, came back and it was gone. Thanks.