Advancement and opportunities are more dependent on your timing (joining the group), mentorship (find one), your soft skills (likeability, communication, appearance), and your internal management's capability to advocate your skills, rather than your technical skills and work ethic alone. It's a very inaccurate expectation to think that performance and hard work alone pay off in any corporate culture. This is not a TI-specific "con"; it's a hard lesson for all employees of any larger corporation.
Take more ownership in developing your people's skillsets and getting to know their personal strengths and weaknesses. This can greatly benefit or hurt the success of your team and the dynamics of the organization.
The interview process depends on the hiring manager. It could be a panel interview or a 1-on-1. The first step would be through HR, and then a multiple set of interviews from section managers to help give their input to the last level of interview, t
Started with a basic introduction for both of us and the basic layout of the interview, which was: * Behavioral Questions * Technical Questions * Questions. Each question was relatively common and expected; however, you don't have to answer v
Pretty simple: behavioral, then technical, then behavioral. Several questions regarding basic circuits: how do caps, resistors, and transistors work? Some questions on statistics, like how a normal distribution looks. How would you go about testin
The interview process depends on the hiring manager. It could be a panel interview or a 1-on-1. The first step would be through HR, and then a multiple set of interviews from section managers to help give their input to the last level of interview, t
Started with a basic introduction for both of us and the basic layout of the interview, which was: * Behavioral Questions * Technical Questions * Questions. Each question was relatively common and expected; however, you don't have to answer v
Pretty simple: behavioral, then technical, then behavioral. Several questions regarding basic circuits: how do caps, resistors, and transistors work? Some questions on statistics, like how a normal distribution looks. How would you go about testin