Applications Engineer Interview Experience - Dallas, Texas
Process
It was a three-step process.
First, I had an interview on campus after talking to them at the career fair. This interview was mainly behavioral questions.
Next, I had a virtual interview on HireVue that was also mainly behavioral questions and questions about my resume and projects I've worked on. It was a bit more technical than the first interview.
The final step was when I was flown to Dallas for an on-site interview. On the first day, I stayed at a really nice hotel and had dinner with other candidates and current Application Engineer Rotation Program people. The next day, I had two back-to-back 45-minute interviews at TI, where there were two people interviewing me at a time. These interviews were technical in nature. I also had to prepare a presentation about a project I worked on.
Questions
1st interview: Mainly behavioral questions.
2nd interview: Behavioral questions and questions about my resume. A couple of technical questions that really depend on who's interviewing:
- Describe the block diagram of a Bluetooth wireless headset.
- How would you improve the Bluetooth wireless headset?
3rd interview: Technical questions specific to my resume and presentation. My presentation had buck converters in it, so they asked me:
- What's the purpose of the inductor and capacitor at the output?
- How do you make the input more efficient?
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Texas Instruments Work Experiences
- 3.0Great benefits. Good place to workApplications Engineer • Current EmployeeDallas, Texas, United StatesJanuary 23, 2009Pros: Benefits, casual work environment, stable company even in the current economy. Depending on your position, they are not critical of work scheduled. Some jobs require the employee to be on-site certain hours, while others are more flexible.Cons: The IT support area is a mix of languages that should be consolidated into a few. Autoshell is used for machine control which, however non-standard, works. The reporting side uses many, many languages and structures: Java, Perl, C, TCL, PHP, .NET, and more. The Java side uses a proprietary framework that was created before Struts and does not allow for internal test-driven development or any testing for that matter. From the corporate side, there are decisions that are held away from employees when management should be more upfront. This has affected morale for the whole company. Another issue is the amount of raises. I have always received perfect scores on my reviews but only received one raise in six years. I even get messages from upper managers saying how glad they are that I worked on whatever project. However, they keep saying that I'm topped out, but I know others are making more for the same position. The proof is on this site.
- 4.0Great Benefits, Sales LeadershipApplications Engineer • Current EmployeeDallas, Texas, United StatesNovember 2, 2016Pros: - Good work-life balance. - Great profit-sharing bonus. - Lots of vacation.Cons: - Too many sales guys running the company. We need more smart engineers in leadership. All of the top tech companies have engineers leading the company, not sales and business guys.
- 5.0Great Team, Bureaucratic HassleApplications Engineer • Former EmployeeDallas, Texas, United StatesJune 25, 2023Pros: Great culture and co-workers. An engaging and helpful team.Cons: Too bureaucratic at times. So many dumb bureaucratic things happen.
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