Synthesia Software Engineer interview experience

The managers I met didn’t really bring a warm energy, and the vibe felt a bit flat.

After those calls, I was assigned a technical project: building an image editor, which I completed within the timeframe. The debrief was where things got more difficult than I expected. Instead of letting me present my solution and walk through it smoothly, the interviewer quickly questioned my approach and moved into topics that felt outside the assignment’s scope. They asked about disadvantages of using large context in React and whether Redux would have been better, even though neither context nor Redux