I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Synaptics (Santa Clara, CA) in Sep 2011
Interview
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.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Synaptics (Bengaluru) in Mar 2025
Interview
I had applied online on LinkedIn. Recruiter had reached out to me a week later.
Interview was held on teams and I got the feedback a week later. Interviewer was the head of the 15.4 team at Synaptics
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Bit flipping and manipulation in C, function pointers, interrupt latency, mutxes and semaphores. One programming question regarding how you can design a calculator using function pointers
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Synaptics
Interview
HR phone screening followed by Phone call with the Hiring manager. I was all in for the an onsite interview with 4 people with good technical skill set.
Interview questions were on C(Volatile/Static/Bit manipulation). Algorithms for Array sorry and was asked to optimize for memory & speed. I2C related questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Algorithms for Array sorry and was asked to optimize for memory & speed
Firmware Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Synaptics with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Firmware Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 4 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 Firmware Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
Skills test: 18%
Personality test: 18%
Group panel interview: 18%
Background check: 9%
One on one interview: 9%
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