I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) in Jan 2009
Interview
Around 5 to 6 interviews from 9AM to 5PM
Lunch with group manager
Engineer are friendly and ask broad range of questions
Question samples: capacitor divider, switching noise, amplifier architecture, close loop stability, device matching, ....
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
charge conservation across a network of 4 capacitors
i did the technical interview for 1h with two senior engineers using webex for the analog design engineer role and had to annotate using the mouse so it was uncomfortable
TI Design Engineer interviews cover analog/digital fundamentals, op-amps, STA, Verilog, CMOS, memory, and embedded C. Expect problem-solving, project presentation, and behavioral questions testing depth, reasoning, and technical clarity. Other than that it was basics.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain the working of a folded cascode op-amp and analyze its noise performance.
Excellent experience being interviewed by TI. This was back in 2007-08. TI was my first ever job and I had the most fantastic experience of my life working for them