Synthesia Backend Engineer interview experience

After applying, I didn’t get any helpful follow-up from the process—within minutes I received a refusal email, and then I got another one almost immediately with a different template. The messages felt automated and careless, especially since I’d seen “after careful review” style wording twice back-to-back.

It was frustrating because the rejection came without any real context, and it didn’t even seem consistent in how it was delivered. I couldn’t tell anything about what was lacking or whether the process had advanced at all. By the end, the main reflection I had was that it was hard to