Adobe CS1 Bangalore Hiring Drive Interview Experience

Company: Adobe
Role: CS1
Location: Bangalore
Final Status: HR Update Pending
My Adobe CS1 hiring drive was a mix of coding, system design, SQL and behavioral discussions.

Round-by-Round Experience

Round 1 - Resume + Cache Design

The conversation started with my resume and projects before moving to a design question:

How would you design a cache?

I discussed the basic architecture, cache behavior. The interviewer also asked follow-ups around how the design would behave under different situations.

Round 2 - Coding + SQL + System Design

This was the most mixed technical round.

First problem was asked Count Collisions, followed by Asteroid Collision as a follow-up.

We then moved into SQL questions and system-design concepts.

One concept the interviewer specifically discussed was idempotency, why it matters and how I would handle repeated requests safely in a system.

Round 3 - Resume + Behavioral

This round related to my resume and previous work.

Along with that, I was asked behavioral questions around my experiences and how I had handled different situations. It felt more conversational than the previous technical round.

Round 4 - Director Round

The final round was with a Director and included a sales-related HLD system-design problem.

I was able to work through roughly half of the design and explain my thought process. The rest of the conversation moved towards behavioral questions and my past experiences.

Final Update

I was still waiting for the HR update, so I didn't have a final selection or rejection to share.