I was interviewed by Adobe for Senior Software Engineer position. The process took 2 days.

1. First round was online Hackerrank test which included aptitude and coding sections. I received response within a day and was called for interview in 3 days.
2. Second phase included 5 face to face technical rounds at the Noida office. Below are the questions in detail, organized by topic:

Data structure and coding concepts:

1. How array lists work
2. How Strings work
3. Read contents from a file and count words in it.
4. Write a program to print a patters using *. For eg:

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5. Write program to implement reversed linked list
6. Write program to do binary search in a list. What is complexity? Worst case scenarios.
7. Why strings are immutable?
8. Write program to add two numbers stored in 2 different linked lists.
9. Write program to find if second array is a rotated version of first array.

Puzzles:

1. Famous 3 eggs and 100 floors problem
2. Camel and banana problem
3. Apple and Oranges puzzle
4. 3 bulb, 3 switch problem
5. Burning rope problem

Manual Testing

1. Test cases for a physical machine which counts number of cars passing through it
2. Test cases for grammar checker (this was difficult one. Search google for this)
3. Test cases of a mobile application which converts image clicked from camera to PDF
4. Test cases of a feature, which automatically copies contents of a local folder to a server location via ftp.
5. If an application or computer system is suddenly running very slow, what would you do to debug the problem?
6. Test cases on a LAN cable, which connects laptop to internet.

Computer fundamentals:

1. How does a system boot up? What happens during the same
2. Difference between RAM/ROM?
3. What is paging?
4. What happens when you google anything on google.com. On what basis, suggestions are shown to user for auto-complete.
5. What is cache memory?
6. How does disk defragmentation works?
7. Impact of anti-virus on debugging an application (i dont remember the question clearly)
8. Different HTTP status and their meaning. Like 404 internal server error etc.