Adobe

Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

May 1, 2014

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The process was pretty straightforward.

I had a telephone call with the computer scientist, followed by an onsite discussion with four other team members.

They did not ask any difficult questions, sticking instead to very general inquiries.

Questions

Design a Java Chat server.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 11 interview experiences for the Adobe Senior Software Engineer role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

18%

Pass Rate

Adobe's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in San Jose, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive55%

Neutral18%

Negative27%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Adobe's Senior Software Engineer interview process in San Jose, California.

Adobe Work Experiences

Amazing Family Work Balance

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: I have joined Adobe recently. It's an amazing place to work and have a great family life. People are very friendly and helpful and want you to excel. I am very happy about my decision to join this amazing team. People are really passionate and excited about the work that they are doing.

Cons: Can't think of anything. Free food wouldn't hurt, though. Rest everything else is excellent.

Amazing Family Work Balance

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: I have joined Adobe recently. It's an amazing place to work and have a great family life. People are very friendly and helpful and want you to excel. I am very happy about my decision to join this amazing team. People are really passionate and excited about the work that they are doing.

Cons: Can't think of anything. Free food wouldn't hurt, though. Rest everything else is excellent.

A nice place with nice teams to work at

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Managers and teams are nice and helpful.

Cons: Fewer chances of conversion to full-time.

A nice place with nice teams to work at

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Managers and teams are nice and helpful.

Cons: Fewer chances of conversion to full-time.

Great work-life balance as long as you're not in AEP

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Great place to work and retire.

Cons: Not competent enough when compared to other companies that use cutting-edge tech.

Great work-life balance as long as you're not in AEP

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Great place to work and retire.

Cons: Not competent enough when compared to other companies that use cutting-edge tech.

Amazing Family Work Balance

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: I have joined Adobe recently. It's an amazing place to work and have a great family life. People are very friendly and helpful and want you to excel. I am very happy about my decision to join this amazing team. People are really passionate and excited about the work that they are doing.

Cons: Can't think of anything. Free food wouldn't hurt, though. Rest everything else is excellent.

5.0
Amazing Family Work Balance
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Jose, California, United States
May 16, 2019
Pros: I have joined Adobe recently. It's an amazing place to work and have a great family life. People are very friendly and helpful and want you to excel. I am very happy about my decision to join this amazing team. People are really passionate and excited about the work that they are doing.
Cons: Can't think of anything. Free food wouldn't hurt, though. Rest everything else is excellent.

A nice place with nice teams to work at

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Managers and teams are nice and helpful.

Cons: Fewer chances of conversion to full-time.

5.0
A nice place with nice teams to work at
Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee
San Jose, California, United States
March 1, 2024
Pros: Managers and teams are nice and helpful.
Cons: Fewer chances of conversion to full-time.

Great work-life balance as long as you're not in AEP

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Great place to work and retire.

Cons: Not competent enough when compared to other companies that use cutting-edge tech.

5.0
Great work-life balance as long as you're not in AEP
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Jose, California, United States
March 5, 2024
Pros: Great place to work and retire.
Cons: Not competent enough when compared to other companies that use cutting-edge tech.

Adobe Interview Questions

Special Binary String

A special binary string has equal numbers of 0s and 1s, and any prefix has at least as many 1s as 0s. You need to recursively make the lexicographically largest special string possible from a given special binary string.

RecursionStrings

Increment Submatrices by One

You are given a matrix and a series of update operations. Each operation specifies a submatrix that should have all its elements incremented by one. Your goal is to perform all the updates and return the modified matrix.

Longest Common Prefix

Find the longest string that is a prefix of all strings in a given array. If no common prefix exists, return an empty string.

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