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Updated Apr 25, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Globalization Software Engineer at Adobe
Posted Apr 25, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in San Jose, CA (took 2 days)
Initially i had a 30 min call with the hiring manager where they asked me about my work and my interest in the field of mobile computing. Then i was called for one on one interview at the company where i had to present my projects related to Android and my curriculum. Also the manager briefed me about responsibilities of an intern and some project related information.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.
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Security Engineer at Adobe
Posted Apr 5, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in San Jose, CA (took 2+ weeks)
I was contacted by a Senior Recruiter through linked-in. Job description looked interesting so I responded back showing my interest. She arranged an interview with the hiring manager within next 2 days. Hiring Manager was nice and polite and asked a few general questions in the beginning and then went quite technical in his questions. The next day, HR email me back and arranged another interview and then another and another. It rested at 7 telephonic interviews with people from different technical backgrounds.
There were a few scenario based questions like "how would you do a pentest flash applications/SOAP based Web Services, RESTful APIs etc. There were some questions on XSS, SQLi and questions to prevent phishing attacks. I was also asked to explain the process of Threat Modelling and one of the interviewers started asking me questions on OOP concepts. A lot of questions on Mobile App Sec specially Android, reverse engineering Android binaries, pentesting android apps etc.
All this happened in 2 weeks time, like I was giving interview almost every day including Saturday. They said they have an urgent requirement. Finally after 7 rounds of tech interviews, I was asked to come for onsite interviews as soon as possible. HR called me and asked me about my salary expectations and I told her frankly. It seemed they were fine with the salary-package that I expected and got me in touch with someone else to get my flights/hotel etc. I went to San Jose office two days later and was again interviewed by 5 different people including their Dir of Engineering and HR etc. Interviews were very technical except the HR one off-course. I was asked to write code on a white board and solve puzzles.
Questions ranged from writing a pseudo code for some linked list implementation and writing a code of singly linked list to do some specific things. Considering I hadn't done coding in a while this was kind of difficult for me to recall all everything.
Questions on Chrome Sandboxing were asked and some questions on design patterns and OOP.
In the end everyone seemed happy and they said they'd respond back within two days as the requirement was urgent. The hiring manager told me that they were interviewing other candidates but I was the best among them and I was on top of their list and blah blah and also mentioned that Adobe pays really well. He even went ahead to show me an empty office saying that if you decide to join, this will be yours. But it has been quite a while since I have heard back from anyone. I emailed the HR but she did not respond back.
I guess the thing which I did not like was that HR/Recruiter did not have a basic decency to respond back and tell me what the outcome of so many interview was. Kind of frustrating that I actually had to put in special efforts to accommodate so many interviews and a sudden onsite visit despite my current full time job. If they had doubts on my tech abilities they should have figured it out in the first 7 interviews rather than wasting my time.
#Update: 3 weeks later, the hiring manager contacted me back and discussed my salary expectations.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software QA Engineer at Adobe
Posted Mar 5, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in San Jose, CA (took 4+ weeks)
I imagined myself in the position based on the job requirement, and my feeling was – ‘perfect’. Applied. Found someone for baby care, paid 30$. I was interviewed for around 5 minutes. I was asked abt my past experience. That person tried to dig into one area. It was little difficult for her to get it because that person was pre-occupied with certain idea (I guess). That person sounded perfect, professional and technically sharp as well. I cursed my day, pronunciation/accent when that person changed voice to make me feel – I cannot get you…, waste of time. I thought it is reasonable from her side. But I did not feel same when I realized, she hadn’t even look at first page of my resume and don’t know about my background….. And funny thing is I was asked to read the job requirement I applied. Then I was informed, my resume was routed to the wrong table. I applied for job ‘A’, interviewed for job ‘B’. Fair enough,.. happens. That person said bye to me saying another person will interview me. I was hoping a call/ email but nobody has contacted me regarding this.
It’s their decision/ right to choose who they want. No complain, just experience.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Program Manager at Adobe
Posted Sep 24, 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 Sep 2011 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
communication and planning around the interview was good. Questions mostly related to Project Management scenarios and how to handle them.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe
Posted Apr 29, 2011 — 4 of 4 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 Apr 2011 in San Jose, CA (took 2 months)
I was contacted by Recruiter in Feb-2011 and she arranged phone interview with Flash Access group, the manager spoke with me for 30 minutes and later they arranged 1:1 interview with 7 engineers/leads/managers one after the other (each 45 minutes), It went pretty well and I was called for second round where I just met with the Senior Manager of the group for 45 minutes, he asked me basic questions and then HR person spoke about benefits and policies and how they would move forward.
The Senior manager said it would take 2-3 weeks to make decision and everything is POSITIVE, nothing wrong with the interview or my skills so I was very positive, on the same day HR lady called me and discussed if I have other offers and salary etc. I gave all the details and she said we need to fasten the process and get you on board as soon as possible, she took 45 minutes to explain policies and benefits once again. At that time I thought it would take 1 week's time to receive final offer. But after a week HR lady called and said that there is one urgent higher management meeting and that would decide about this position, meanwhile I kept my other offers on hold to see what happens here again after few days she called and asked to wait for few more days. I kept my fingers crossed even though I sensed something fishy in this matter but did not ask anything to HR.
Later after 1 week I asked as I had to make decision on my other offers and she replied that sorry that management has decided to move this position to some other group in SF and she said they are too bummed about this and blah blah....
I am not disappointed because technically I cleared the interview and almost got the offer but the part which pisses me off is, how can such a huge corporate make such a lame decision and waste candidates time for 2 1:1 interview (of 7-8 hours total where I took day off for an interview) and the height is, they don't tell you the outcome of the disastrous management decision unless you ask them. The management and HR ppl are jerk in Adobe. And worst part is, this process took well over 2 months since HR contacted initially.
Even the interview questions were so lame, I was wondering how come Adobe employees ask such a straight forward (even school pass-out can answer) type questions for 7+ yrs exp person for Senior Computer Scientist position. Isn't it pathetic. One of the engineer asked me to reverse a linked list, come on give me a break, this question is not even asked to recent school pass outs.
I am disappointed because I wasted my time and did not get satisfaction of solving difficult problems in interview (because all questions were piece of cake). Hope this review helps.
Pardon me for the typo errors. :)
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Human Resources at Adobe
Posted Mar 29, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 in San Jose, CA (took 1+ week)
Everything was very positive, and all signs pointed to offer, references called, but decision made to go with someone else . . . was a little odd to me, having offer discussed and refs checked then getting a thanks but no thanks response. Expected more of Adobe . . . Everything else seemed great.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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SAP Security Administrator at Adobe
Posted Mar 9, 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 Jan 2011 in San Jose, CA (took 2 days)
1 - phone screening with recruiter
2 - phone interview with hiring manager
3 - on-site interview with team members and hiring manager
People were all very professional and friendly, amazing office/work space, great company culture.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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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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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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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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