Synthesia Software Engineer interview experience

I started with a recruiter conversation and then quickly moved into a take-home assignment. The task wasn’t time-boxed in the strictest sense, but I spent on the order of half a day to about ten hours shaping something presentable, depending on how comfortable I was with the scope. What stood out was that I didn’t just submit code and disappear—I later had a review call where we discussed what I built, with engineers asking questions about the approach and architecture.

System design showed up, but it was not a long, multi-part ordeal; it felt compact, more like a quick second pass to