Adobe CS1 FullStack Interview Experience | Banglore/Noida Location
Summary
I went through three interview rounds for a FullStack role at Adobe in the Bangalore/Noida area, but was rejected after the final hiring manager discussion.
Full Experience
HR Reached out with the position.
Scheduled round within 1 week.
My background - IIT Grad with 4 YOE in Dream11.
Left job to upskill and build side projects. 2 months out of job.
Round 1 - Past Project Discussion + DSA
DSA Question -> Sliding window Maximum
Round 2 - Past Project Discussion + HLD of the Project +
Frontend Machine Coding Question (In 30 mins)
Design Autocomplete Search with data fetched from API call with discussion on possible optimisations
Both Rounds positive response. Next Round Scheduled in a week.
Round 3 - HM Discussion and AI Usage.
HM joined the call and left to get coffee.
Jumped back to the call and asked how would I have took the first 2 rounds.
Answered intutively.
Then he drilled down in my CV. Was going great until he pointed my service traffic number misprint.
He sounded satisfied with the discussion and asked about my 2 month gap where i was building personal project. And why i was not scaling that and giving interviews.
I think I messed up a little here.
Got a rejection mail a day after.
Guys If you have personal projects that are gaining traction and you are out of job. Do you write about them and talk about it in the interview.
Interview Questions (2)
Sliding Window Maximum
Given an array of integers and a window size k, return an array containing the maximum value in each sliding window of size k as the window moves from left to right.
Design Autocomplete Search
Implement an autocomplete component for a web application. The component should fetch suggestion data from an API as the user types and display relevant results. Discuss possible optimisations such as debouncing user input, caching API responses, and minimizing network calls.