I stopped by the booth at my university's career fair and spoke to an engineer for a bit. He invited me to an interview on campus the next day where he gave me circuits questions. They were pretty standard and basic, such as RC equations and transfer functions.
After that, I was invited to do a 1-hour presentation to two people about a project I did. The presentation was more like a walkthrough where they asked me questions about the project as I went through the slides. They were all technical questions, for the most part about the project, so you better know your project well.
However, my project was an analog amplifier, and both the interviewers were digital guys, so they didn't really have a lot of hard questions. I passed, and they invited me down to Texas.
They paid for the hotel, airplane, etc., which was cool.
The first night at the hotel, you go through a presentation with some of the engineers where you drink a bit and relax. After, you head out to a restaurant.
The next morning, I went in for two interviews. Each interview was with three people.
The first interview, they asked me mostly behavioral questions. I feel like they were not satisfied with my responses, considering they let me do most of the talking.
The next group of people kind of treated me like crap. For these interviews, you do your presentation in person that you did over the phone. They kept interrupting me and asking questions that were relevant to the slide that I talked about like six slides ago. They asked me technical questions too.
Too long ago, I honestly forgot. They asked me about IIR filters and how to choose where to place the zeros and poles for types of filters.
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Texas Instruments's interview process for their Applications Engineer roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
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