I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) in Sept 2010
Interview
Hiring and Interview process was long (two months) and it was kind of straight forward, with technical and skills questions, with hiring manager and his manager. Your experience and knowledge counts for about 75%, and being like-able counts for the rest.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Having a 10 years gap in my work history, not working in technical field, I was asked: "Why did I change the carrier to a very different field?" I had to come up with a little history, and that was actually a good thing, manager being satisfied with that.