My experience

Overview

As an Applications Engineering Intern, I helped support the Applications Engineering team for my department to help TI's customers evaluate and implement my division's parts. My main project involved creating a low-cost setup that could use common off-the-shelf parts to evaluate my division's sensors for use in customer products. This involved a lot of research into how best to accomplish this task, as well as design work to create the actual system. I also spent a lot of time helping out on other tasks to help support TI's customers, even though as an intern I was never the main point of contact between us and any customers.

My manager and the entire team at TI were fantastic and very supportive of me. TI also, despite changing us to virtual due to COVID-19, kept every promise they made to their interns, keeping all of their interns on, paying them for time they were supposed to be working but couldn't due to the new later start date, and still sending relocation bonuses despite nobody actually relocating. All in all, I can say that if TI is the kind of company that stands by their interns during a global crisis, they are certainly a company that will stand by their full-time employees, and for that reason I can feel confident that they will support me if I choose to work there full-time in the future.