Adobe·Software Engineer

Adobe Software Engineer interview experience

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San Jose, CAPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey was clearly pitched as deep and technical, with multiple rounds and a lot of focus on problem-solving.

I went through five rounds, each about 45 minutes, where the questions were described as very deep—coding plus behavioral, and then more technical discussions where the interviewer pressure felt real. Even though the interviewers were well-behaved and tried to make me comfortable, the difficulty was still the kind that forced me to think carefully.

The most intense portion for me was the live technical interview: I got medium LeetCode-style questions and had to work through them while explaining my approach. I also had time with a hiring manager in a longer soft-skills conversation where we

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