Texas Instruments designs analog and embedded processing chips: power management, data converters, amplifiers, interface ICs and microcontrollers. It owns its manufacturing, and its Bengaluru centre has been a key design site for decades, with a strong analog and mixed-signal focus.
The order and number of rounds vary. Campus drives are usually shorter, while experienced-hire loops add rounds with more senior engineers.
Campus hiring commonly includes a technical test in analog/digital electronics, network theory and aptitude.
Circuits from first principles: RC circuits, diodes, BJT/MOSFET operation and op-amp basics.
Analog design (amplifiers, feedback, stability), digital design, or embedded, depending on the role.
A circuit or system problem worked through step by step, with your reasoning spoken out loud.
Background and joining logistics.
Every company asks about fundamentals. These are the areas candidates report Texas Instruments pushing on hardest, given what the company builds.
MOSFET small-signal models, gain, bandwidth, and feedback. The basics must be solid and intuitive.
Phase margin, compensation, slew rate, and non-idealities like offset and finite gain.
LDOs vs switching regulators, efficiency, and ripple, for power-product teams.
ADC/DAC architectures, resolution, sampling, and quantization noise.
C, interrupts, peripherals (UART/SPI/I2C) and memory-mapped I/O.
Expect "what happens if…" questions that test your intuition, not just memorized equations.
Written by us to match the topics above, not copied from a real interview. Try answering out loud first, then open each one to see what the interviewer is really checking.
What they're probing: Loop gain, desensitization, and the trade-off against bandwidth.
What they're probing: Ringing, overshoot, and the path towards oscillation.
What they're probing: Noise vs efficiency, and why an LDO often post-regulates a buck.
What they're probing: Capacitor matching, comparator noise, and reference accuracy.
What they're probing: gm, rout, and the load. Clean derivation and intuition.
What they're probing: fc = 1/(2πRC) ≈ 159 Hz. Checks fundamentals quickly.
What they're probing: Latency, CPU usage, and simplicity for very fast or very rare events.
Where to apply: the official Texas Instruments careers site. Search for "ASIC", "design verification", "physical design" or "silicon" roles. For the wider market, see our company directory and fresher job guide. For typical pay, see the salary guides.
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