I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Synopsys
Interview
strong questions basically written questions on c, pointers, arrays, linked list, logic gates.
they asked to solved the questions and give you 45 mins. face to face interview was good ask about the coding and programing
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Synopsys (Sunnyvale, CA) in Sep 2015
Interview
Brief discussion with the recruiter n the hone followed by hour long technical interview with the hiring manager on the phone. After this I was invited onsite for about a 5 hour technical interviews with five team members.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The phone interview was "C" questions on printf, UNIX signalling mechanism, multithreading and process model. Onsite was more algorithms and implement you own functions and find the problem with pre-written "C" functions, write a function to convert little endian data to big endian and solve some generic puzzles. I was also asked scripting questions on Perl.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Synopsys in Jun 2014
Interview
Got a direct call from the Technical panel, explaining to me the requirement they have, Followed by one Telephonic Discussion which is bainly focussed on my skill set, immediately followed by the onsite interview, Onsite interview is for the whole day comprising of 4 technical Rounds, followed by one HR interrview. Technical Discussion is mainly focussed on creative thinking, Problem solving and puzzles.
Area of focus was Data Structure and Algortihms, Debugging, Unix Internals and C Programming.
Onsite is followed by one more round of Telephonic Discussion from US Program Manager, it was also Technical Though.