In 2026 expect medium-to-hard problems where the interviewer wants correct code, sensible data-structure choices, and a follow-up on memory when the canvas or document is huge. The in-domain framing is deliberate; Adobe values engineers who connect the algorithm to how a real editor would use it.
About Adobe
Adobe India's Noida campus is one of its largest globally, with teams working on Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Experience Cloud, and Acrobat. Engineering culture values craft and design thinking, and even SWE interviews assess code elegance.
- Products
- Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign (Creative Cloud) · Adobe Premiere Pro / After Effects · Adobe Acrobat / PDF · Adobe Experience Cloud (AEM, Analytics, Target) · Adobe Express
- Competitors
- Canva · Figma (acquired by Adobe, later blocked) · Microsoft (Office/Copilot) · Salesforce Marketing Cloud · Autodesk
- Scale
- Hundreds of millions of Creative Cloud subscribers globally. One of the largest SaaS businesses by ARR.
Adobe recruitment process
01
Online coding assessment or campus test
02
Technical coding round one on DSA
03
Technical coding round two plus low-level design
04
Hiring-manager round, then offer
What to expect in each round
01
Round 1 (60-90 min)
online assessment with DSA problems.
02
Round 2 (60 min)
live coding on flood-fill, caching, or stack-based problems.
03
Round 3 (60 min)
harder coding plus low-level design with memory and scale discussion.
Technical questions Adobe asked
Sourced from 2+ candidate post-mortems. Hit Practice to answer any one with AI voice feedback.
- 01
Medium
Reverse a linked list in O(1) extra space. Then explain when you'd use this in production.
- 02
Easy
What is the difference between a class and an object? Give an example.
- 03
Easy
Write a SQL query to find the second-highest salary in a department.
- 04
Easy
What is normalisation in databases? When would you de-normalise?
- 05
Easy
What's the difference between a stack and a queue? Give a real-world use case for each.
- 06
Hard
Given a stream of integers, design a data structure that returns the median in O(log n).
- 07
Medium
You have a service that's slow only on Tuesdays. Walk me through how you'd debug.
- 08
Hard
Here's 200 lines of payment-processing code with several intentional bugs. Find them and explain the production impact of each.
- 09
Medium
Explain webhooks vs. polling for a developer who has never built a payment integration. You have 4 sentences.
- 10
Hard
Walk me through Razorpay's fraud-detection model. How would you reduce false positives without increasing chargeback losses?
- 11
Medium
We see UPI failure rates spike at 9pm on weekends. How would you debug and what's your hypothesis?
- 12
Easy
What's 54% of 110? You have 10 seconds.