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Adobe Research Scientist Interview Questions

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CodingStart here. 7 questions · ~66 min
LeetCode Bulb Switcher ChallengeMedium
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Use perfect-square reasoning to determine how many bulbs remain on after n rounds of toggling.

coding challengeeven numbersAlgorithmsAdobe
Bilinear Interpolation CodingMedium
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Compute a value at fractional grid coordinates using bilinear interpolation across four neighboring samples.

ArraysArray ManipulationpythonAdobe
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Machine Learning15 questions · ~140 min
Significance of Attention MechanismsHard

Explain why attention improves sequence modeling, then implement and evaluate a self-attention classifier against a non-attention baseline.

Neural Networksmodel architectureFeature EngineeringAdobe
Unstructured Data ChallengesHard

Design a practical pipeline for preprocessing, representing, and modeling unstructured data while managing noise, sparsity, and evaluation risk.

data preprocessingFeature EngineeringDeep LearningAdobe
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Model Evaluation14 questions · ~131 min
Metrics for Generative ModelsHard

Select and justify metrics for evaluating a generative model across quality, relevance, diversity, safety, and human preference.

performance evaluationevaluation metricsPrecisionAdobe
Model Evaluation MetricsMedium

Explain your experience selecting and interpreting model evaluation metrics across machine learning tasks.

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NLP7 questions · ~66 min
Extract Features for Text ClassificationMedium

Build a feature extraction pipeline for text classification using TF-IDF, embeddings, and preprocessing choices that improve signal.

Language ModelsText ClassificationTokenizationAdobe
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System Design3 questions · ~28 min
Distributed Training on Heterogeneous HardwareHard

Tests your ability to design distributed training systems that handle hardware variability and scale.

distributed trainingsystem architectureAdobe
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Behavioral & Leadership4 questions · ~37 min
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