I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Texas Instruments (Taipeh) in Jul 2013
Interview
Candidates applied online will be filtered by phone interviews and HR would introduce the job during the tele-conversation. On the date of interview, candidates were distributed with 4 members in one team. After finishing paper-test and logic test, teams are requested to do a group simulation by selecting a topic and finding out how to apply TI products on it. The preparation time was about 20 mins, each of the members had to present and interviewers would ask further questions depending on your topic and your responsible part (How you allocate your jobs in your team? Why you are responsible to present this part?) I will highly recommend future candidates to spend time on TI website to have basic sense of TI products.
Those who passed the group presentation would receive text after lunch. The group interview was 90 mins with 5 candidates at the same time. You will be asked to introduce yourself in English and interviewers will ask some questions based on your self-introduction, resume, autobiography, and transcript. Most of the questions are not technical-related.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interviewer asked me how to make up the technical gap as I screwed up on the paper test
What distinguishes you between candidates?
Wasn't too rough but asked very niche questions and the sales portion of the interview seemed to carry the most importance even thought the interviewers suggested otherwise. The sales interviewer seemed the most disinterested in being there which made the mood drop when that section came up.
HireVue had 3 questions, talk about myself, how I would work around a conflict and a project related to the field. I was able to redo each of the questions and it seemed like we could prepare it after pressing start interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
how I would work around a conflict with a employee
Smooth. Focused on personality and resume. Less of technical questions. Gave a business case study. Just be confident and smile. Also asked to draw block diagram of any electronic device. 3 rounds in total. 2 technical and 1 hr.