I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Adobe (San Jose, CA) in Dec 2018
Interview
Video interview w/ a senior engineer. He had googled me prior to the interview, which I expected. But I didn't expect he would ask why I chose to pursue software engineering instead of a sports career. Two weeks later, I get invited for an on-site interview at San Jose office. It was half a day, with four or five 1:1 interviews with members of the same team.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Video interview: Write a function that finds the nth fibonacci number. What is the time/space complexity? Best/worst case scenario?
On-site interviews, except the first seemed like they were coming up with questions on the spot. Questions involving best data structures for the challenges the team is currently working on. Got a question on C code since I included it as a programming language on my resume. I had to find and fix an existing bug involving the strcpy function (required an understanding of heap and stack memory in the C language).
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
