I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Synapse Product Development (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2010
Interview
Initially they required a "code sample" to be emailed. This is always problematic and unrealistic since the requirements are never clear.
Then there was a phone interview. Incredibly, the interviewer didn't even ask me one word about my experience or offer to tell me one word about the position. After an initial very brief greeting he insisted on going right to a technical problem. He set up an online "chalkboard" and asked me to code as he watched every character I typed and we talked on the phone. It was about a 50-line function. I had one or two very minor errors ( "=" instead of "+=" ) primarily the result of the fact that I don't normally code in this kind of environment. The interviewer wrapped up the conversation rather abruptly and essentially informed me that he wasn't interested.
The whole exchange was very unrealistic and shallow - to say the least. Strong negative for this company.
I applied through university. I interviewed at Synapse Product Development (Bengaluru) in Sept 2019
Interview
There was a resume process upon which there was a coding round where most of the students got filtered and upon that there were 2 rounds which were technical and hiring manager rounds after which they gave me the offer since it was a Japanese corp didnt negotiate the offer
A recruit coordinator first emailed me about the following steps. Then I passed a code challenge. After that was a phone interview where the interviewer would ask you some technical questions.
Then my recruit coordinator was out of contact. And her email was also disabled. I emailed another recruiter of them for help, and only get a auto-mail saying that I failed.
I applied online. I interviewed at Synapse Product Development
Interview
Applied via their online application page with my resume and an answer to the programming question (seems to be same for every SWEng position BTW). Recruiter emailed back with a phone screen request, which was just a discussion with a senior SW engineer about resume stuff, past experiences, and a couple of basic domain knowledge/coding questions. Got invited to the onsite(though it seemed like they don't cover any travel expenses) until they canceled a little bit later.