This was for the Applications Rotation Program (which is how the majority of applications engineers now enter TI).

Amazingly quick turnaround time for interviews. Had an on-campus interview, which was a mix of behavioral and technical. The second round was a video call with a factory applications engineer and a field applications engineer. I was invited to a final-round interview in Dallas for the following week. All expenses were paid for the final-round interview.

For the final-round interview, they flew me out to Dallas, rented a car, and set me up with a nice two-room suite at a nearby hotel. You'll be taken out to dinner with a group of applications engineers who started in the program within the last year. It's a stress-free time to learn more about TI and the people who work there. They have no influence on the selection process.

The next day was a day of interviews. Your morning may start as early as 7 am or as late as 10 am, depending on how many people they are interviewing. I had two interviews, each with two applications engineering managers: one from the factory side and one from the field side. Interviews lasted 45 minutes each. They provided lunch. For the remainder of your time, you will be given a tour of a portion of the Dallas facility (you get to see some of the building, but not really any of the labs or where engineering work is occurring). They'll also give you a comprehensive presentation on the benefits of Texas Instruments. Take it with a grain of salt; they do have many nice benefits, but a lot of them are pretty standard throughout the semiconductor industry.

The final-round interviews were also a combination of technical and behavioral. You are asked to prepare a short presentation on a significant project you have worked on. They'll ask you some behavioral questions, go through your presentation, and then go through some basic technical questions. Examples of behavioral questions include:

• "When was a time that your project failed?"
• "When was a time that you had conflict with people on a team, and how did you resolve it?"

Some examples of technical questions were explaining how to build basic digital logic gates, filter design, and some op-amp circuit questions. It really depends on the skill set of the interviewer. If they're in the op-amp group, you'll likely get op-amp questions, and so forth.

They got back to me with an offer within 24 hours of the final interview. HR was very responsive to any questions. Really great interview process.

Draw a basic low-pass filter and characterize it.

Draw a non-inverting amplifier and characterize it.

How do you combine the two to create an active low-pass filter?

Write out the gain at low frequency and high frequency.