Adobe·Software Engineer

Adobe Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

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San Jose, CAPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I waited a while after applying—about two months—then the hiring manager reached out.

We had a 30-minute call, and then I moved straight into a live coding round. The coding portion had two medium LeetCode-style questions, and the last one asked me to mock an API call with pagination.

The hardest part wasn’t so much the topics as the pacing. I felt like there wasn’t enough time to fully work through the questions the way I wanted, and that pressure made me second-guess how much I should optimize vs. when to move on. The overall difficulty landed on the difficult side for me because of that time crunch.

Even with my effort, I didn’t make it to the offer, and I left feeling

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