I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Synaptics (Santa Clara, CA) in Sept 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