I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Texas Instruments (Bengaluru) in Jun 2021
Interview
I applied off-campus through a referral. After that my resume got shortlisted and a 2-hour technical interview was arranged with one of the senior engineers.
The Interview was tough and I got to learn a lot of new things from that interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q1. Write a C function to print the digits between LSB & MSB of a given number.
Q2. There are 2 Microcontrollers of 8 bits each. You can give input on one side and receive output on the other side. If exactly 2 pins have been swapped, in how many minimum numbers of trials can you detect which 2 pins were swapped?
Q3. While the data is being processed in a C code, the data which is initialized is stored in Stack or data segment?
Q4. What is Makefile?
Q5. Write a C code for transferring the data from one destination to another destination. (Pointers working)
Q6. One Microcontroller is connected with a Temperature sensor. Explain its working with the help of SPI or I2C.
they asked mainly about projects and after that os and rtos . difference between microprocessor and microcontroller. make sure to study projects deeply as the majority of the interview is based on that only
I interviewed at Texas Instruments (Bangalore Rural)
Interview
First round was off basic core questions and questions were related to C programming Computer organisation operating system and little bit of computer network.
In the interview they asked me about C programming the most and I have heard that they asked some questions related to compiler also.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One basic DSA question and I was asked to do that question in C language.
The question was that I was given a string, they ask me that if the string is like aabbc CC then give me the output like a 3 b3 C3
Pretty chill mostly asked funamentals of c,coursework of ece branch and resume.Also computer architecture and microprocessors and microcontrollers.The interview went pretty good it was about an hour long.The interviewers were very cooperative and was helping throughout the interview which really made it easy.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is structured padding and how do you apply it?
Embedded Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Texas Instruments with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Embedded Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Texas Instruments overall takes an average of 24 days.
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Background check: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 11%
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