Texas Instruments Application-Engineer interview questions

I applied for the applications engineering rotation program online in mid-August. A couple of weeks after I applied, TI asked me to complete a video interview where I would record answers and send them back using their HireVue system. There were a total of six questions, and for each I had one minute to prepare an answer and three (if I remember correctly) minutes to give my answer. They gave questions such as "What was your most difficult course in school and what did you do to master it," "Do you prefer analog or digital," and "Do you have any geographical restrictions." In just a couple days, they asked me to have a live video interview through the HireVue software. In this interview, an applications engineer called me and we discussed a project I had done in school. There weren't really any hard technical or behavioral questions in this interview; it was mostly me discussing my project and the engineer telling me about working at TI. In about five days, they asked me to come down to Dallas for an in-person interview and told me to prepare a 4-5 slide presentation on a project I had done. They flew me out, rented me a car, and put me up in a hotel for a night. There were about 15 total interviewees there. The night we got there we went out for dinner with a few current applications engineers in the rotation program. We could ask them questions and get to know them and the other interviewees. The next day, we were divided into shifts for our interviews and tours/info sessions. My shifts were in the afternoon, so I arrived for lunch (with the current engineers in the rotation, the interviewees, and the interviewers) then went on the tour/info session. Both the tour and the info session were led by the current engineers in the rotation. After the info session there were two interviews, each with two interviewers. In both interviews they asked me to go through my presentation with them (not formally present it). As we went through it they asked me questions about the project. They also asked me some behavioral questions throughout. I don't recall the questions they asked but they were not too bad. Near the end, they had me do some stuff on the whiteboard such as drawing block diagrams of my project and drawing out some other diagrams. All of the technical questions were related to my project or to another project I talked about in a behavioral question. Less than 48 hours later, they emailed me and said I wasn't what they were looking for. Even though I got rejected, I still feel like interviewing was a positive experience. I got the chance to meet some people doing work I'd like to do in the future and I felt like my time and experience was respected throughout the process. I hope that someday I can work for TI or another company like it.

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.