Adobe Interview Experience for CS1 (Noida June 2022)

Technical Round 1 (1hrs)

Note: expected production-level code
DSA Round: Following questions were asked

• find x to power y.(later asked me to write down the code for negative number as well)
  https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/write-a-c-program-to-calculate-powxn/
• search in a row and column-wise sorted matrix.
  https://leetcode.com/problems/search-a-2d-matrix/
• Group all anagrams together
  https://leetcode.com/problems/group-anagrams/

Technical Round 2 (50mins)
DSA

• Quick sort algo, time complexity avg, best case scenario.
• Heap and heap sort (time complexity)

C++

• some code snippet-based questions which I could not remember.
• some discussion on my projects.

Hiring Manager 1(1 hrs)
DSA

• Design an iterator for BST

C++

• Allocate a 2D array using malloc. later asked me to optimize the malloc calls. (I couldn’t optimize)
  https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dynamically-allocate-2d-array-c/

Note: 3rd Round’s feedback was average so they scheduled another HM round with a different team manager.

Hiring Manager 2 (1hrs 5 mins): I was not able to write down the Running code, I give the recursive solution and then optimized it to DP.(we had a discussion around 1hr only for this question)
https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/523660/maximum-profit-traveling-between-2-cities-with-associated-cost

Director Round (1 hrs):

• Behavioral questions:
• Introduction.
• Work done and current role in my current company, a lot of discussions in my module.
• Asked me which part you implemented by yourself in the last project.
• What challenges you have faced.
• what your manager will say about you.
• How many members are in your team, what is your rank in your team. (You have to justify your answers)

DSA
Dutch National Flag Problem
https://leetcode.com/problems/sort-colors/
Note: He asked me to write down running code on any ide of your choice, I have used leetcode ide.
Again some Behavioral questions.