Synaptics Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Met on Wednesday at 10:30 to 1:30 (No lunch). Resumed on Thursday at 3:30 until 5:30. Two weeks later no results.

Interview Details – Got a cold call from a Synaptics recruiter who set me up with two technical phone interviews. Pretty typical questions you would get for firmware: describe threads, task schedulers, interrupts, semaphores, watchdog timers and their use cases.

The two technical interviews led to an on-site review. This was an all day interview which included lunch, and I met with seven people who were going to be part of the team I worked with. Questions included writing C code for bit manipulations, drawing digital circuits, and how a boot loader works. Explaining the trade off between I2C and SPI was another question.

Reason for Declining – The majority of the interviewers were welcoming and very humble, but a couple were condescending during the 1:1 on-site which left a bad impression. The two I mentioned seemed like the engineers I would be working with, so I decided to decline when the offer came in.

Interview Details – I submitted CV and received phone call from recruiter about Summer Intern position. Fairly easy interview. Great Intern program. Highly recommended. Very technical smart people, but I interviewed for support services (non engineer). More work meant shifting to contractor which is a rough transition. Very little support for contractors.

Negotiation Details – Intern program is quite generous. $30/hr with $1000 bonus upon completion.

Interview Details – 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.

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

Interview Details – - 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

Interview Details – 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.

Interview Details – 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.

Interview Details – I got an opportunity for 1:1 interview with Hiring Manager following my resume submission during their Mixer session. And then it proceeded to next level 1:1 interview with the team.
Professional and friendly.

Interview Details – 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.