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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

December 1, 2018
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Process

I had a video interview with a senior engineer. He had Googled me prior to the interview, which I expected. However, I didn't expect he would ask why I chose to pursue software engineering instead of a sports career.

Two weeks later, I was invited for an on-site interview at the San Jose office. It was half a day, with four or five one-on-one interviews with members of the same team.

Questions

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 involved the best data structures for the challenges the team was currently working on. I received 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 (this required an understanding of heap and stack memory in the C language).

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 17 interview experiences for the Adobe Software Engineer role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

47%
Pass Rate

Adobe's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Jose, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive65%
Neutral12%
Negative24%

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

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