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Updated May 25, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Procurement at Adobe
Posted Feb 14, 2011 — 3 of 3 people found this helpful
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 in Delhi (India) (took 4 days)
Before writing anything about my interview experience, I must say that Adobe is a very strong company for its technical competencies.
I was called for an interview after multiple rounds of interview with the hiring manager through phone and 1:1 meeting. She was very impressed for my passion for the work I do and knowledge I have. After these rounds, she arranged a full-day interview with the other Managers/stakeholder who would have an important relationship with this role - Facilities, Finance, HR, etc.
My interview with all these departments went on very well. Infact I was already suggesting ways of improvement or what value I can bring with this role and I was quite shocked to see how liberal their paying policies are how out of date they are in Procurement practices, using ERPs etc. I was also very impressed with the swanky office the Facilities Manager is occupying.
So after all these rounds, I was asked to wait for a couple of days and I will e informed. The hiring manager was very confident of my selection and told me how much help I am going to be and she was very excited about the changes we can bring in the way procurement is done in the company. As a feedback about the interview and in general discussion about the vendors, I got to know that Adobe has some of the over-prices vendors in the business which are known to get business by paying hefty bribes. I shared this information with the hiring manager as well.
Even after 3-4 days, I did not get any response from the hiring team so I decided to check with them. I was told that the Facilites person was not 'comfortable' with me and they did not see me as the right 'fit'. It was an ultimate shock to me as my interview with him went on very well. I later-on got to know that this person is a close relative of their MD.
You might have noticed that I am writing this review after almost one and half years of the interview. So far I was thinking of it as a nagative experience and moved on. But today itself I was talking to an ex-colleague and got to know that he had the exact same experience with the company and had heard numerous stories about the corrupt ways of the company. And how they are giving business to vendors at exorbitant prices.
I got inspired to write this review as I really like the company and would hope someone takes cognizance of this. I did my bit!!!!
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Quality Engineer at Adobe
Posted Feb 16, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Delhi (India) (took a day)
Written test followed by three rounds of technical and one round of behavioral interview
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Reason for Declining
Was leaving to pursue a Master's degree
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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 a Skills Test.
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Data Mining/Machine Learning Engineer Position at Adobe
Posted Feb 4, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
A recruiter from Adobe contacted me for an opportunity with Adobe!!! She sent me a wrong job description for Community Marketing Manager despite my computer science background. Then they realized their mistake and sent me data mining/machine learning engineer position description. I was interviewed by 2 people including a hiring manager and senior developer by phone. At end of the interview, hiring manager promised me for face2face interview after a good show. In contrary to hiring manager words, recruiter sent me a reject mail stating they are moving forward with other candidates!!! It is the strangest interview process I ever had!!!
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Operations Manager at Adobe
Posted Jan 21, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Dallas, TX (took 2+ weeks)
The background check and all of the other screening had taken place before the takeover. After the takeover there were interviews to determine who would be the operations manager. The upper management visited the site several times, interviewed us 1:1, we discussed it over the phone. Also had a management interview discussion about my plans if I were to get the job.
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Negotiation Details
I didn't negotiate the salary. The package was more than fair.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Channel Operations Manager at Adobe
Posted Jan 18, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 in McLean, VA (took a day)
Very positive environment, met with two individuals. Warm office setting, met the standards of the west coast "meet the company" setting. However was not selected as candidate. This company was gracious with notification. HR was prompt in notification and actually felt badly. A truly classy organization.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Adobe
Posted Jan 3, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 (took 2 days)
It was awesome. All the interviews happened same day and i got feedback next day
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Data Mining/Machine Learning Engineer Position at Adobe
Posted Dec 29, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
Two people conducted one hour phone interview. They called separately so each had half hour. One of them is the hiring manager, he explained that the team is mainly about data mining. Then asked my real world experience with data mining, and eventually that lead to amazon recommendation system. So he asked me how I would design the recommendation system? He was polite and the conversation was pleasant.
The second person is a senior engineer in the team. He asked my experience and skills required for the position. There was a problem in our discussion, quite often, I had hard time understand what he wanted to ask. He was trying to refine his question several times, in the end, we both worked very hard to define the problem. Overall, he is a nice person.
I told the manager that I wouldn't be available soon, that, maybe plus others leads to no forward.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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New Grad - Community Marketing Manager at Adobe
Posted Dec 16, 2010
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
I applied on LinkedIn and got an email from the recruiter expressing their interest in doing a phone interview. Asked for availability for phone interview and scheduled it exactly after Thanksgiving.
It was a 30 min phone interview...first 10 min were spent by the manager explaining the positions(because the recruiter did not call me and explain) Next he just asks about my experience and what I have done...not many questions...
He just asked my experience in Social media, Marketing...I had less experience...I applied because it was entry level for fresh MBAs...They never asked any ideas or any other stuff..just basic experience questions...I was disappointed because, they never asked me ideas to improve their community and others...focus was on my experience, even for a fresh grad.
The interviewer just says nice talking to you and hangs up...Never gets anything back...I email the recruiter and she says you may or may not hear back after 48 hours and do not mind...
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Developer and White Box Testing at Adobe
Posted Dec 10, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took 2 days)
Adobe was(rather still is) one of my dream company. I had applied through a online portal. Unexpetedly i got mail next day morning. Interveiew was 2 days after getting the mail. I was not fully prepared then( funny thing is.. then I used to work in mainframe, but java is my passion or subject of interest :) ).
1st round was : written test ( analytical abilty, quants ) : very easy( except 2/3 qts )
2nd round : Java Technical apptitude ( multiple choices + some silly descriptive semester type qts )
3rd : 1:1 most.. the most probably was a SE like me.. asking lots of qts like ( some from collections, email validations, string reverse logic etc etc ) : easy
4th round: 1:1 .. i thik he was ml/ta. Things were getting difficult. He was asking hell lots of qts( fibonacci recursive, iterators, threads , 2/3 well known puzzles, new things in java 1.6 syntax etc etc) : it was at least 1.5 hr
5 round : Ohh man.. it was a bit difficult. that guy was an ML(5 yrs exp). Asked several technical qts, program, puzzles. I had managed to ans all somehow :P, but atlast he asked me to write 10 test cases for a condition like to test if the 'dir' command ( customized) is working or not. it was silly. I was struggling to mention 10 cases for this thing.. but somehow managed it( some points which i had mentioned were really funny :P.. but what can i do... the qts itself was a piece of joke ..dont knw y didnt ask me to wrte 20 cases for that ..newaz).. i had cleard that too..
then I had to fill up one form mentioning all the details( same things which i had already mentioned in my cv).
then the showstopper round
6th round : with hiring manager.. some blah blah qts like why u r changing u r tech domain and things..
then he had asked me to write a program .. which takes 3 lengths as input of a triangle, and checks all the possibilty to form different kinda triangale.. (all validations ).. easy one
I was then almost in cloud7 :D.. but :(
the last qts was a puzzle..
[ A man was going from city A to B with his camel and 3000 bananas. The distance btwn A and B = 1000 ml. that stupid camel eats 1 banana/ml. What is the highest no of banans , the man can trasport from A to B.
cond: that man cant carry any banana with him. Only that camel can.]
I had spend atleast 20 mins. He had given me hints too... but the truth is i couldnt solv that. He was also upset atlast. that was the only thing which i couldnt ans.. :( still feel depressed .. but :) life goes on yaar.. ha ha
( forgot to mention.. 5th and 6 th round was 3/4 days after the first day ).
[ Ignore all typo errors :P.. after writing the last few lines.. dont hv mood to recheck again ]
Hope, these info will be useful for someone of you. All the best guys..
Thanks
M.... .
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Senior Software Engineer at Adobe
Posted Oct 13, 2010
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in San Jose, CA (took 1+ week)
I was approached by an in-house recruiter, through my LinkedIn profile. The recruiter sent me a summary job description, that piqued my interest. I also checked out Adobe's benefits, and they're roughly on par with my current company's. So I contacted her, and told I'm not actively looking, but the job seemed fun, and Adobe seems like a nice place to work for.
Then I got into a technical phone screen with the hiring mgr, which didn't seem all that technical. He was mostly concerned with my work history. I also made a point to tell him I was not actively looking to leave my current company; that Adobe contacted ME with a job that seemed worthy of discussion. That might have sold him, because I think I bombed his technical grilling. I had to admit I didn't know OpenGL (ES) that well, and we even went so far as to talk about a graphics project I did in school (a LOOOONG time ago). Morale of this story: you put something on your CV, be ready to talk about it!
So to my surprise, I get called in for a F2F interview a couple days later. I talked to their lead architect, senior manager, the hiring mgr, and a code grunt with bad BO. Well, what I THOUGHT was going to be a rather easy-going discussion about how I can meet the team's goals, turned into an all-out grilling on technical topics that were way over the top for an interview timeslice. They love their threading, with C++ and hard-core ASM.
I made my overall dissatisfaction known about the high difficulty level imposed by the team to the HR lady, and basically told her not to send me a rejection letter. In reality, I should have followed my gut instinct, and leave after talking to their architect. No sense in wasting my time there further.
In any case, I would still interview at Adobe...but I hope they'll still be around as an independent corporate entity, and not gobbled up by the Microsoft borg cube.
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