TSMC Software Engineer interview experience

That visit came with some practical surprises: there wasn’t compensation for transportation, and the trip itself felt like part of how they gauge motivation as much as anything else.

During the conversations, the message was pretty consistent—what I had done in my PhD didn’t need to be directly relevant to the job. Instead, it was more about how I came across as a person and whether I seemed eager to work. It didn’t feel like a technical interview so much as an assessment of mindset and readiness for the environment.