I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Synaptics (San Jose, CA) in Dec 2010
Interview
1 technical interview. 1 seven hour onsite interview with 10 interviewers. Morning session includes a 1 hour presentation by the candidate that is expected to be based on his/her actual work and is expected to be very technical.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions range from brain teasers, to writing code, to physics, mathematics, probability theory, transistor level circuits, signal processing, general engineering problem solving.