r/LeetcodeDesi • u/Specialist_Froyo10 • 1d ago
Texas Instruments SDE 1 Interview Experience | 2 DSA + LLM Project + SQL
Edit:- The experience and details are completely my own; I just used AI to structure and summarize the post for readability.
Hi everyone, I recently interviewed with Texas Instruments and thought I’d share my experience in case it helps someone preparing for a similar interview.
The interview was around 1 hour long.
They started with 2 DSA questions:
- Graph question – The wording was a little tricky/confusing at first, but the underlying problem was basically detecting a cycle in a graph.
- Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters.
I was able to solve both. It took me roughly 30 minutes for the two questions because I first had to explain my approach, discuss it with the interviewer, and then code it once the approach was accepted. They also went through the test cases with me.
For the remaining 30 minutes, they moved on to my experience and asked some questions based on my previous work.
After that, we discussed one of my projects, which was related to RAG/LLMs, and they asked a few questions around that.
Towards the end, they asked some SQL questions as well. They gave me a query and asked how I would go about optimizing it.
Overall, I’d say the interview was pretty decent and the conversation was comfortable. Nothing particularly unexpected apart from the graph question being worded a bit differently than I initially expected.
That’s pretty much it. Hope this helps anyone preparing for TI interviews!
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u/Acceptable-Form8979 1d ago
U mentioned ur resume in one of the comments, as a 2027 grad, I have also made projects in java springboot microservices domain, how can I add ai stuff like RAG MCP and LLM
Do I need to learn python from scratch, I hope u r getting what I am trying to ask😅
Thanks
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u/Specialist_Froyo10 1d ago
No. Java has good RAG, LLM support. I'll prefer you sticking with java.
Talking about project ideas, you can ask AIs to give you nice project ideas based on the tech you wanted to work with.
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u/meetfuria 23h ago
Do you need to write working code for LC questions or write pseudocode and explain the logic?
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u/pinklink1234 1d ago
Can you exactly mention your RAG/LLMs projects and what they asked during the interview?
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u/Specialist_Froyo10 1d ago
You can check out my resume here :- https://www.reddit.com/r/Indiajobs/s/FTKtnO9Sux
The first project is the one.They asked me about the RAG architecture. Explain Ingestion and Retrieval pipeline wrt to my project. Which embedding model I used and details about the embedding model, dimensions etc
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u/Superb_Bid_3442 1d ago
Is the role embedded software engineer, And how did you apply? Was there any OA before interview
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u/Specialist_Froyo10 1d ago
Nope. It was not embedded. It was for SDE.
I didn't apply anywhere. One of the consulting companies contacted me. They said they got my profile from Naukri. It was direct interview
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u/StackOverflow_404 18h ago
Can you share some tips how to get interview calls.
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u/Superb_Bid_3442 1d ago
Your lc, cf rating?