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Updated Dec 1, 2011 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Firmware Engineer at Synaptics
Posted Dec 1, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took 2 months)
I was referred by my friend , recruiter contacted understood the situation and scheduled phone interview after 2 weeks . Had a phone interview where I was asked questions on RS232,SPI, data memory allignment, USB, RTOS . I thought that it did not go well but hiring manager had said in the end that we do not expect every one to know everything and then came to know through recruiter that HM recommended me for onsite interview.
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Reason for Declining
got another offer and this was slow process and still waiting to hear for promised onsite interviews as they said there is no open entry level position and I should wait
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Systems Architect at Synaptics
Posted Jul 29, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)
- The interviewers were all fairly smart. This isn't common for most companies.
- I was always treated with full respect. The interviewers, even though all smart, treated my answers as correct by default and though how they themselves could also be equally wrong if their opinion were different. At most places, the interviewers generally consider themselves to be smarter and behave as if the candidate is dumb whenever their opinion does not match that of the candidate.
- A full day of generally deeply technical interviews, yet a lot of fun.
- Two interviewers for each session. All were very honest and honestly trying to hire good candidates for the position.
- Interview level would be difficult for most candidates though was mostly easy for me
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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ASIC Firmware Verification Engineer at Synaptics
Posted Apr 13, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took a day)
Basic questions on C language about commands like Volatile, static, global. Asked to write a function which returns the number of 1s in an unsigned number.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Intern at Synaptics
Posted Mar 15, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took 5 days)
Very good. The company is welcoming and people are polite. Hopeful should find a job there.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Firmware Engineer at Synaptics
Posted Aug 11, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2010 (took a day)
I had heard and even read on net that synaptics people have bizzare way of analysing candidates and since they have lots of time they would just interview whole of silicon valley and reject candidates left and right giving them bizzare explanations of why they were not selected. They told me though my answers were right but they were little complex to understand. They called me for 45 minutes of interview. The manager was last by half hour and then took interview for 1.30 hrs and then rejected saying the answers were complex for him, though i had told him many way to solve a problem and asked him to choose a way where in i explained what i will do and coded it right .Anyways please let me know what your reason for rejection is.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Program Manager at Synaptics
Posted Apr 4, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 (took a day)
I was called by a search firm agency. The agency arranged an interview after I submitted CV.
Interview took 1 1/2 hour with a hiring manager. Another hour with a region manager.
Questions are related with my overall career and understanding levels of technology depth, customer oriented attitude, and situation challenges.
Waiting for another round of interview in next week.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Synaptics
Posted Dec 9, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2009 (took a day)
Asked about my experience and technical lab questions.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Firmware Engineer at Synaptics
Posted Nov 11, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)
The first afternoon I interviewed with a manager. He asked several easy technical questions and said I passed. Then he arranged another appointment. The next time I interviewed with 5 people, including a sr. sw engineer, 2 sw engineers, a system engineer and the manager of the hiring group (not the one I interview before). I think I correctly answered all the technical questions. The last interviewer was the manager. He asked a lot of questions and used twice the time assigned. I thought I was going to be hired. But a week later I received an email from the HR saying I was denied the offer. The reason is that another guy did better.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Synaptics
Posted Oct 8, 2009
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2009 (took a day)
The interview is quite simple: the HR called/emailed to arrange a time, and the HR and hiring manager were the only two who talked to me on the day of the interview. The HR lady is very nice and she explained the company culture and other things to me in details. The hiring manager spent 45-50 minutes with me and pretty much just went through my resume and asked me what are my like/dislike in terms of job functions. He also indicate he needs to talk to quite a lot of people to make the final decision. There were no IQ test, skill test, or any technical questions in the interview.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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