I was contacted by Recruiter in Feb-2011 and she arranged phone interview with Flash Access group, the manager spoke with me for 30 minutes and later they arranged 1:1 interview with 7 engineers/leads/managers one after the other (each 45 minutes), It went pretty well and I was called for second round where I just met with the Senior Manager of the group for 45 minutes, he asked me basic questions and then HR person spoke about benefits and policies and how they would move forward. The Senior manager said it would take 2-3 weeks to make decision and everything is POSITIVE, nothing wrong with the interview or my skills so I was very positive, on the same day HR lady called me and discussed if I have other offers and salary etc. I gave all the details and she said we need to fasten the process and get you on board as soon as possible, she took 45 minutes to explain policies and benefits once again. At that time I thought it would take 1 week's time to receive final offer. But after a week HR lady called and said that there is one urgent higher management meeting and that would decide about this position, meanwhile I kept my other offers on hold to see what happens here again after few days she called and asked to wait for few more days. I kept my fingers crossed even though I sensed something fishy in this matter but did not ask anything to HR. Later after 1 week I asked as I had to make decision on my other offers and she replied that sorry that management has decided to move this position to some other group in SF and she said they are too bummed about this and blah blah.... I am not disappointed because technically I cleared the interview and almost got the offer but the part which pisses me off is, how can such a huge corporate make such a lame decision and waste candidates time for 2 1:1 interview (of 7-8 hours total where I took day off for an interview) and the height is, they don't tell you the outcome of the disastrous management decision unless you ask them. The management and HR ppl are jerk in Adobe. And worst part is, this process took well over 2 months since HR contacted initially. Even the interview questions were so lame, I was wondering how come Adobe employees ask such a straight forward (even school pass-out can answer) type questions for 7+ yrs exp person for Senior Computer Scientist position. Isn't it pathetic. One of the engineer asked me to reverse a linked list, come on give me a break, this question is not even asked to recent school pass outs. I am disappointed because I wasted my time and did not get satisfaction of solving difficult problems in interview (because all questions were piece of cake). Hope this review helps. Pardon me for the typo errors. :)

I had a friend refer me for this position. The HR team did not ask for my availability before scheduling the interviews and directly sent invites for the first two rounds on the same day they were conducting interview drive. I requested a reschedule because the timing did not work for me, but I received a one-line response saying they could not reschedule the interview. I still decided to attend because Adobe is a well-regarded company. Round 1 focused on DS/Algo, coding proficiency, and problem-solving fundamentals. It went quite well. The interviewer was patient, helpful, and asked relevant questions. Round 2 was supposed to focus on frontend concepts, problem solving, deep JavaScript knowledge, browser APIs, UI architecture, and hands-on coding. However, the interviewer instead asked a system design problem. The experience was confusing because the interviewer herself did not seem fully clear on the expectations. During requirement clarification, she initially mentioned that the task was only to build a real-time collaborative text editor. Later, the requirements shifted toward designing a drawing/design tool with real-time collaboration, and several points that were explicitly stated as “out of scope” were suddenly brought back into scope. Overall, it felt like the interviewer already had a specific solution in mind, possibly from a predefined reference, and was only looking to hear that exact approach. It ended up being a frustrating experience because the interview focus kept changing and the expectations were unclear.