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Staff+ Backend at Adobe

BackendStaff+No offer◆ Commonly asked· 2024

Staff backend interview. Fundamentals mattered as much as getting to an answer.

The loop · 5 rounds

01

Round 01 · 3 questions

DSA / Coding

Data structures & algorithms on a whiteboard or shared editor.

  • Lowest common ancestor of a binary tree.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #tree
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • Top K frequent elements.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #heap#hashmap
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • Edit distance.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #dp#string
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
02

Round 02 · 1 question

Low-Level Design

Object-oriented / low-level design of a focused module.

  • Design a logging library with levels and sinks.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #oop
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
03

Round 03 · 2 questions

System Design

High-level architecture of a large-scale system.

  • Design a multi-tenant SaaS data model.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #multi-tenancy#databases
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
  • Design a search indexing pipeline (crawl to index to serve).
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #indexing#pipeline
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
04

Round 04 · 1 question

Hiring Manager

Scope, ownership, and role-fit discussion with the manager.

  • How do you decide what to build vs. buy vs. defer?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #judgment
05

Round 05 · 2 questions

Behavioral / HR

Values, collaboration, and past-experience (STAR) questions.

  • Describe a goal you set and how you achieved it.
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #ownership#star
  • A time you made a mistake in production — what happened next?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #ownership#star

◆ This experience is composed from commonly reported questions for this role and level. Real, individually-shared interviews will be layered in over time.