Synthesia Software Engineer interview experience

But on the morning of the interview, the meeting got cancelled, and shortly after I received a rejection email.

What made it jarring was that I didn’t even get to show up for an actual conversation. The timing felt abrupt, like the role might have been filled or the decision made last minute—because otherwise it didn’t really explain why they would book the interview and then cancel right before.

The process ended almost instantly. My reflection was that it was hard to attribute the rejection to anything concrete, since there was no interview to evaluate how I performed.