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Difficulty Rating [?]   Based on 14 ratings

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Interview Experience [?]   Based on 14 ratings

Positive 64%
Neutral 29%
Negative 7%

Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates (updated Dec 27, 2009).

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Software Quality Engineer at Adobe

Posted Dec 27, 2009

5.0
Very Difficult Interview
Overall Positive Experience Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Mar 2007 in Delhi (took 1 week)

They conducted a written test first, then called for interviews, booked the complete day for the process,
started with the form filling process, then 2 back to back technical interview rounds. break for lunch, then a bug finding test on computer editor like notepad. again 2 more rounds of technical interviews and one HR interview.

Interview Questions

puzzles and knowledge of operating systems and memory management things

Other Details

I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Software Engineer at Adobe

Posted Dec 13, 2009

3.0
Average Interview
Overall Positive Experience Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Dec 2009 in Newton, MA (took 4+ weeks)

I applied to San Jose, CA position online. Then an HR person representing the Newton, MA office contacted me, which was win-win because I live in Boston and I had contacts also working for or with the Newton office. After a phone interview with two managers, I came in to the office, gave a presentation of my past work, and then had video-conference based interviews with five people.

Everyone sounded interested in my work, and we had a good series of back-and-forth discussions about the current technology used at Adobe and what sort of changes might be made in the future.

It was not a cake-walk of an interview (e.g. I did have to prepare a presentation), but I felt like I was engaging a set of peers, rather than talking to people attempting to intimidate me or prove that they were smarter than I am.

Interview Questions

What was your first programming project?

Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.

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Quality Engineer at Adobe

Posted Dec 10, 2009

3.0
Average Interview
Overall Positive Experience Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed May 2007 in Bangalore (took 1+ week)

It started with pen and paper round where I needed to solve testing related questions. Example test cases etc. Then I had 3-4 interview rounds where maximum questions were around QA. Last round by hiring manager was related to coding question and test cases around it.

Interview Questions

Triangle problem - write test cases

Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.

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Project Manager at Adobe

Posted Dec 8, 2009

3.0
Average Interview
Overall Negative Experience Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2008 (took 4+ weeks)

Was contacted by recruiter to publicize opening. Ended up applying myself.
Short phone interview with recruiter -- pretty standard HR questions.
Never got the opportunity to talk about my technical expertise, which was a very good fit.
Recruiter simply didn't reply to further contacts, not even to say that someone else (a friend of mine) was hired.

Interview Questions

Why do you want to work here?

Other Details

I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Member of Technical Staff at Adobe

Posted Dec 6, 2009

4.0
Difficult Interview
Overall Positive Experience Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Nov 2007 in Bangalore (took a day)

Started with a test.
Quatitative and technical.
Shortlisted were called for interview.

There were five rounds of interview.
Mostly c++ and Data Structure questions were asked.
And lots of question on problem solving and logical analysis.
All interviews were of same type.
Last two rounds discussed about the job i am interviewed for.

Interview Questions

Lots of questions on trees, arrays and sorting.

Negotiation Details

HR interview was mere procedure.
Was happy with the offer and accepted.

Other Details

The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.

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Software Engineer at Adobe

Posted Nov 11, 2009

4.0
Difficult Interview
Overall Positive Experience Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Apr 2008 (took a day)

Had 2 phone interviews which were not too technical. People were very nice. Went to San Fransisco for an on site interview. These were very technical and involved coding problems involving recursion and tree traversal as well as others. Looks like a great place to work.

Interview Questions

Print the contents of a BST in order without using recursion.

Other Details

I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Software Engineer at Adobe

Posted Nov 3, 2009

4.0
Difficult Interview
Overall Positive Experience Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Apr 2007 in Bangalore (took 2 days)

The first round of screening was a written test comprising of questions in C, both subjective and Objective. The standard of the test was good.

After a few days , I got a call for the on-site interview. 4 interviews were conducted which lasted for about 3-4 hours. One of them was through video-conferencing. The interviews stressed a lot on data structures and coding, primarily data structures.

Interview Questions

Binary tree questions

Other Details

I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.

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Software QA Engineer at Adobe

Posted Sep 18, 2009

4.0
Difficult Interview
Overall Positive Experience Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Jun 2008 (took a day)

The recruiters got my number from LinkedIn and scheduled me for an 1 hour interview with the technical staff.
They asked me a lot of questions about my current job and about software testing in general.
Unfortunately they were looking for a Software Tester and not for a real Software QA. Once this was clear enough, I have told them I am not interested anymore and we agree to stop.

Interview Questions

What is the difference between White Box testing and Black Box testing?

Reason for Declining

It wasn't what I was looking for.

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Testing Engineer at Adobestudent candidate

Posted Aug 11, 2009

3.0
Average Interview
Overall Neutral Experience Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Aug 2009 (took 2 days)

The interview consisted of
1.Written round which consists of 3 papers namely Aptitude test,Data structure and C
2.First round was more of puzzles (they really check your aptitude and ability to think under pressure)
3.Second round was more on Operating System concepts.Not going into much deeper concepts just the basic knowledge.
4.Third round was more on algorithms..Very standard algos like convert array to integer,integer to array(any base).
5.They gave me a really tough question asked me to explain on white board(called as white board round)
6.Last was HR and very informal talk like how do u like adobe...Was previous interview wet good...

Finally I was not selected but many of my friends did....

Interview Questions

Given a chessboard in which u dont know how the black and white boxes are arranged but this is sure that there will 32 black squares and 32 white squares.You have to find the least possible disatnce between any two sqaures of same colour

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.

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Director at Adobe

Posted Jul 19, 2009

3.0
Average Interview
Overall Neutral Experience Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2009 (took 5 days)

Had a phone interview with the hiring manager. Matrix organization with solid line reporting to a local manager and dotted line reporting to a remote manager. Engineering management responsibility for a product and team of 70 expected to grow to 100. About 40% of interviewers seemed innovative and looking for fresh ideas; others seemed to emphasize a conservative approach. Interviewers were either peers or a level up. Interesting that none of the direct reports for the position interviewed me.

Interview Questions

Whay are interested in moving from a high profile startup to a more established company?

Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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