Adobe·Software Engineer·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership
- How would you earn the trust of your manager and your team?
“This is the question that got me both times.”
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Most of these Adobe write-ups come from Software Engineers (30), then Machine Learning Engineers (15) and Product Managers (8). The most reported rounds are the technical phone screen (32), the system design round (8), the product sense round (7) and the multi-round onsite (4).
58 interview notes · updated Sep 2026
“This is the question that got me both times.”
“I spent too long on the current-state analysis and didn't leave enough room to actually talk through the roadmap years in any meaningful way.”
“I knew this was topological sort pretty much immediately, but I fumbled the cycle detection explanation for a bit.”
“This one I got through okay.”
“This one sprawled more than I expected.”
“This is where I started strong and then slightly fumbled the Q part.”
“This is deceptively stressful.”
“Spent probably too long on the trie data structure angle before they nudged me toward scale considerations.”
“This one kept growing legs.”
“Binary cross-entropy, and the 'why' is the part people fumble.”