Synthesia·Software Engineer

Synthesia Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

BerlinPosted Aug 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Early on, I was contacted by recruiters on LinkedIn for the same role, and after an initial conversation things seemed to move in the right direction.

Then the momentum disappeared completely. I got ghosted for weeks, and when I was finally rejected, the reasoning came down to my CV not ticking enough boxes for their exact tech stack and frameworks.

The part that really upset me was that I never got an opportunity to prove I could do the work in practice. Being rejected before any technical challenge meant the process felt closed off rather than evaluative. My biggest takeaway was disappointment at the lack of communication and the way it felt like the hiring managers were single-mindedly gatekeeping based on matching their checklist

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