Texas Instrumentation Embedded Interview Experience for Software Engineer Intern

Texas Instrumentation came to our Campus for 4 profiles: Digital, Analog, Signal Processing, and Embedded Software Profiles.

There was an Online assessment and an interview Round.

Online Assessment Round 1

The online assessment was done on the WeCP Platform. There were two section aptitude section and a Coding section. There were standard problems and C coding Snippets. Everything was an MCQ and there were negative markings. I did the test pretty well in the test.

Technical Interview Round 2

This was coding online on the Webex platform. There were two interviewers both of them were quite friendly. They focussed on C programming throughout the interview. for coding questions, they asked me to share screen and write code on an online C compiler.

• Write a code to find the second-largest element in the array.
• Tell me about calloc and malloc functions. what is the return type of calloc and malloc functions?
• Tell me about pointers
• Static v/s Const v/s Volatile keywords in C Explain with the help of example codes.
• write a code for the following pattern problem.

4 5 6 7
3 2 1
0

• What is a template in C++?
• Since I had web-related projects on my resume. they further asked me a few questions.
• They asked me about the difference between Software development and Embedded software development.
• Tell me about microprocessors and microcontrollers.
• They asked me about my project (an IOT based Project based on Arduino UNO and GSM Module )
•  Since you have made more CS-related projects why do you want to join TI which is a hardware-related company ( This was the question where I think I didn’t give a satisfactory answer )
  The interview went on for around 1 hour.

Though I answered almost all questions I wasn’t selected for TI.

Mistakes

• I didn’t prepare a separate core CV for core companies.
• I didn’t prepare the expected HR-type questions in the technical interview and could not handle them properly ( There was only 1 round of interviews)
• There was a slight internet problem in between the interview which might have given a bad impression.

I would say revise C properly which was the most important aspect of the interview. Prepare for HR questions since even in a technical interview they might ask a few questions.
There was only 1 interview round and offers were made after this round.