I applied online and was scheduled for a technical phone screen soon after. My interviewer did not call at the scheduled time, so my recruiter sent me an email informing me that my interview was to be rescheduled. I received a call one day and picked it up, and it was apparently my rescheduled interview, which my recruiter had forgotten to inform me about beforehand. Luckily, it was mostly behavioral questions related to my resume, but I was very surprised and flustered because I was not aware that my interview would be happening at that time. Because of this, I did not even have a laptop on hand, so the interviewer had to skip the coding question.

After that, I was invited to the technical Forum, where I was notified that Adobe was only providing a $50 reimbursement for the entire two days in San Jose. I was not aware of this until the day before the Forum, so I had to pay extra out-of-pocket expenses for transportation (Ubers from the airports). They declined my request to be fully reimbursed twice, which was very unprofessional for a company not to completely cover a candidate's travel expenses.

The first day of the Forum was like a career fair. It was very hectic with 100 interns and approximately 40 booths where teams pitched their projects. You had to talk to every booth to get a sense of what project each booth was pitching, which was inefficient and tiring. In the end, you ranked the teams you wanted to intern for.

On the second day, they gave you a schedule of teams to interview with if a team also selected you. These interviews depended on the team, but they were usually behavioral. However, one of my interviews involved a logical math puzzle, which was unusual for a Software Engineering role.

Overall, I wasn't a big fan of Adobe's interview process.

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