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Member of Technical Staff at Adobe

No Offer – Interviewed in Noida (India) May 2013 – Reviewed May 22, 2013 New

Interview Details First written was conducted then i was called for an interview within a week.
Interview process was good.

Interview Question – finding an element in rotated sorted array.   View Answer

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Senior Solutions Consultant at Adobe

Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 20, 2013 New

Interview Details Initial call with recruiter , follow up calls with team members , onsite visit for a presentation on a topic of your choice . The whole process is way to slow to the point that the position got frozen during the time it took to complete the interview . They later ended up getting exceptions to hire a few and thus I was able to get in .

Interview Question – Mine was all about why I was leaving my previous job , what motivates me etc . Nothing really technical .   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – Very tough . It's the recruiter who negotiates and they usually dont care about what you were making while making an offer . It's upto you to be very tough in a non escalating manner and get what you want which you can do when you can afford to decline the offer if need be .

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Human Resources at Adobe

No Offer – Reviewed May 13, 2013 New

Interview Details Typically a phone interview with hiring manager followed by an in-person interview with 4-5 people. They may ask you to come in for 1-2 more rounds.

Interview Question – How would you describe your brand   Answer Question

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Computer Scientist at Adobe

No Offer – Reviewed May 02, 2013

Interview Details contacted by recruiter via linked in.
had 3 interviews, mostly average questions about pass experiences and what not. there is a bit of coding but not too hard.

Interview Question – implement binary search   Answer Question

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Software Engineer at Adobe

No Offer – Interviewed in Jan 2013 – Reviewed Apr 30, 2013

Interview Details After going to a summer intern career fair and talking to a recruiter, she called back that evening to schedule an in-person interview on the up-coming Friday. The Interviewer was a Senior Software Engineer and easy-going. There weren't any technical questions.

Interview Question – Tell me about a time when faced a problem in one of your projects.   Answer Question

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Software Engineer Intern at Adobe

No Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA (US) Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 22, 2013

Interview Details Met at Career Fair, had an on-campus interview which I passed, then moved onto the on-site interview, which lasted 2 days. They paid all transportation fees and provided lodging and food for out-of-state and international students. On the first day, there was a career fair event where we got to meet a lot of the groups in Adobe and wrote down our favorite groups. The second day, we had a personal interview with the groups in which we had a good match (they wanted you and you wanted to work with them).

Interview Question – Find the minimum element in a rotated array in O(log n) time.   Answer Question

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Account Manager at Adobe

No Offer – Interviewed in Munich (Germany) – Reviewed Apr 19, 2013

Interview Details Very detailed and close follow up by HR from start during the process, lot's of interviews and meetings with everyone who might be later on engaged with you and erverybody has a copy of my CV, asking personaly and indiscrete questions about my current competitve company. This became very time comsuming and a never ending story, I quit the process as due to indiscretion by current company become acknoledge about this.

Interview Question – my colleagues get knowledge about my apllication by indiscretion   Answer Question

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Software Engineer Intern at Adobe

No Offer – Reviewed Apr 18, 2013

Interview Details Initially recruited at a college career fair and scheduled for an on-campus interview the next day that was more to get to know me than test my skills. I was was then invited to attend a selective mock-career fair on the Adobe campus that allowed me to meet the various teams. A mutual ranking system was set up for candidates and teams to select who they would like to interview the following day with the highest mutual matches set up. I interviewed three different teams in the company the next day.

Interview Question – Implement a program to accept an input file containing file paths separated by slashes and lines and build a directory system representing the data paths.   Answer Question

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Intern at Adobe

No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 12, 2013

Interview Details 1.Background overview question
2.One not so difficult question regarding writing an algorithm on series question.
3.Job role specific questions

No idea about the reason of my rejection as the interview was overall good !

Interview Question – Nothing was much difficult   Answer Question

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Software Quality Engineer at Adobe

No Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Jul 2012 – Reviewed Apr 11, 2013

Interview Details Initial Telephonic Round - Scheduled by consultancy : Ten minutes of screening over the phone and called for next round.
Second Round - Technical with all standard testing related questions and puzzle. I answered all questions and solved the puzzle correct. Good people.
Third Round - Another round with team lead as managers were not available. Very good and healthy discussion. Team lead was a great motivator.

Now was the game changer - As no managers were available I was scheduled to come on another day. Time 4:30 pm(invariably people were more busy in pack up for the day). First came a lady manager and took seat , asked to introduce myself and got busy in her laptop replying to some email. Did'nt even bother to look up once. Second question asked relevant and again busy with her outlook. Meanwhile, another manager walks in and thankfully she took pain to introduce me to the latter. Not to mention that the person who walked in later looked a little more interested in listening to me. Asks questions about coding for testing profile. Asks about Java , UNIX , data structure and almost nothing related to what was the job description. I was under the impression that they both were more interested in showing off what they knew rather than show some interest in helping me to bring the best out of me.

The lady had to rush within 10 minutes so she did and the gentleman waited for some more time with me supporting the fact as to why he needs the coding / development / programming knowledge for a black box testing profile. Well IMO testers don't even touch the code ever. Anyhow , after a not so convincing round of interview the person left.

Guys , all I can say a lot depends on your luck , you don't really know the person's thought process who is interviewing you. I was lucky enough to reach till the last round but was little surprised to understand that why did the company waste about 4 business hrs and 4 man work at all , they could/should have screened me out at the very first round.

So , as a rule of thumb - go to Adobe there are some great people and there is a lot to learn but never be sure of them till you get the offer as was with me.

Interview Question – Which technology you support most Japanese or Korean and why?
This was highly unexpected but I managed to support my answer well.
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