I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Adobe (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2021
Interview
First Round:
Half an hour video call with the senior software engineering manager. Talked about my experience and projects and technical skills. The manager told me about the team's missions and projects. Also told me about the technical stack being used. It was a very simple and two-way interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a situation when you had to optimize something on your front end to improve performance.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Adobe (Bengaluru) in Aug 2019
Interview
Face to face. Before going for the interview i asked about the job role but the recruiter told me they have my profile and once i come for the interview they will let me know in details. In the first round itself i could understand the job role dosn't match with my interests and neither i am a match for the opening. I cleared the first round and went for the second round just to make sure its clearly a mismatch as this round was with the hiring manager and i could ask him in details about their expectations and what i am interested in. When i found its not aligned with my interest i left without waiting for next round result. And obviously i received a call from the HR letting me know i have not cleared the round and cannot apply for next 6 months. I feel like they dont even gone through my profile and randomly asked for interview and now i cannot apply for the position i am interested in for next 6 months.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Adobe (Noida) in Apr 2019
Interview
Pathetic experience with these pathetic people having cheap attitude I was excited to go there because of the products I have known, but when I was there talking to these individuals(absent minded, no value for other's time, no respect for candidates , Self-centered, Arrogant), I have lost all my respect
The whole interview procedure is not about assessing the candidates based on his/her skill, but it's about satisfying the ego of self proclaimed experts who have fixed answers in their mind from websites and if your answer(code) is not matching, you are wrong. If you ask why, no fact or explanation is required.
I don't understand what these guys are so boastful about If they come on the other side of the table they will not be able to answer the same level of questions. They are so disrespectful the moment you disagree if they say something is not right....so it doesn't matter what the fact is, just because they say it's wrong it's wrong.
HR has only one role, convey the message, they don't bother how candidate are being treated. This Company is good only on pages and website, when it comes to
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st Round:
1. Interviewer said he didn't have my resume so he wants me to tell him about my career, but he has no interest in listening, no eye contact(busy doing something on his laptop)
2. inorder traversal of Binary tree without using recursion
3. to write set/get method for LRU
4. How to cover N-steps using 1/2 steps at a time
The interviewer has fixed questions and answers memorized and if you are thinking and writing the code, he is not interested. He wants you to write code in a jiffy(5-10mins). He will keep giving you the look as if what is there to think.
For Q3, my code was right, but since I used(iterator for list) an unordered_map<int, pair<list<int>::iterator, int>>, without even going through the code he says it won't work, because iterator cannot be used. Because he wanted me to use "node* ", a linked list using C-type implementation.
There is no end of learning algorithms, and if some bunch of moron thinks they have learnt enough and know everything do a little thing called self-assessment and you will know where you stand.
2nd Round: I was asked to provide the design and implement the code for a game "Minesweeper", as I didn't know much about this game so I asked to provide more details, the interviewer just shown me by playing it once.
This was so superb, I have seen her playing the game and I needed to complete the SDLC cycle in next 15-30 mins, I have written the code using assumption of course(as no constraints was being shared), but this was not even before I started.....God bless you guys....you are remarkably talented. Hope these are the kind of code used in your projects(running all your product)