I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Adobe (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
I applied during an on-campus hiring event. They called up the same evening to set up 1:1 on-campus first interview.
Once i got through, i was invited to the Adobe Career fair in San Jose. There, i was able to meet a lot of teams with open positions available, and i had to select the teams i thought would be a good fit for me. The teams also selected candidates who they think are a good fit, and when there is a match, an interview is scheduled. I was selected by two teams and notified that night. The interviews were scheduled for the next day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I had 3 rounds totally:
1) On campus round: a 45 min interview just one day after applying at the college career fair. the interview was very chilled out, he asked a few background and resume based questions. then he asked a OOD question about design a system for elevators. we spend about 30 mins on that going deeper into the details gradually.
2) 2 on-site rounds after the teams selection: 50 mins each
i) First team : basic background questions and resume questions. Then i was asked to write java code to check whether or not a string had balanced parentheses or not. It started off as a simple problem and gradually they added further restrictions.
ii) Second team: Went deep into java basics, data structures, collections, recursion, time and space complexities. i was asked to write the recursive, iterative and memoized iterative version of the fibonacci numbers code and we discussed the pros and cons of each
The interview process consisted of two technical interviews and one interview with the hiring manager - one coding interview about a very simple two sum problem, and another one about ml knowledge in general. The hiring manager interview has to test if I would be a good fit for the team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Two sum leetcode and ml questions about llms and other ml topics.
Started with 1 recruiter round
It then proceeded towards a conversation with the Hiring Managers.
Lastly, there were 4 onsite rounds in 2 different bursts (first 2 at the same time, and if accepted then the last 2 at a single go)
Coding Challenge style of questions followed by a system design challenge that includes easy and medium problems to solve. Done on the whiteboard with the help of interviewers back and forth