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      Validation Engineer Interview

      Jul 31, 2016
      Anonymous employee
      San Jose, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Synaptics (San Jose, CA) in Jun 2014

      Interview

      Phone interview followed by onsite interview, it was for 4 hours, they asked me about my resume and my projects. Basically they were trying to see problem solving skill and asking some questions to figure out how I will work in large team.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1> Setup and hold time 2> DMA 3> GPIB/i2c and spi 4>lab equipment 5>LabVIEW/Matlab
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      Synaptics interviews FAQs

      • Validation Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Synaptics with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Validation Engineer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Synaptics overall takes an average of 12 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Synaptics as a Validation Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Background check:  25%

        Personality test:  25%

        Phone interview:  25%

        Skills test:  25%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Software Engineer(21) ;
        2. Engineer(13) ;
        3. Staff Software Engineer(11) ;
        4. Staff Engineer(9) ;
        5. Senior Software Engineer(7) ;
        6. Manager(6) ;
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        8. Design Engineer(5) ;
        9. Intern(5) ;
        10. Senior Firmware Engineer(5) ;
        11. Director(4) ;
        12. Hardware Engineer(4) ;
        13. Program Manager(4) ;
        14. Project Manager(4) ;
        15. Senior Test Engineer(4) .


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      Irvine, CA
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