Adobe Software Engineer Interview Experience — Scala Trivia, Then a Surprise LeetCode Classic

Adobe·Software Engineer·Sep 2025
Technical ScreenRejectedmedium

This is one of the many applications I scattered around blindly. I applied to GenStudio on the DX team (people on the forum say DX is a "poison team," same as AEP?). When I applied, it happened to line up with Adobe's legendary summer break, so by the time HR came back from vacation and finally reached out to me, I'd already piled up several rejection letters from other places, hah, wry laugh.

This is a (probably) fresh rejection writeup. I've been sad all day, so of course I didn't perform well. Posting it here so everyone can have a laugh.

My fit with the HM and their team's requirements was probably pretty mismatched — they use Scala, so they asked me some standard JVM trivia, but I still made it through the whole process.

I didn't expect that in the last 20 minutes they'd pull out a Flatten Nested Integer classic and have me solve it. I first came up with a version that makes a flat list with recursion, but he wasn't satisfied with that and asked if I had a solution with better space complexity. I proposed an idea similar to a stack of iterators, but I'd never actually implemented that solution myself back when I originally practiced this problem, so I just described it verbally, and that was that. Last five minutes for questions, then probably GG, moving on.

Their interview style really varies by team. Good luck everyone.

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Interview at a glance

Company
Adobe
Role
Software Engineer
Rounds
Technical Screen
Outcome
Rejected
Difficulty
medium
Interview date
Sep 2025
Questions from this interview
1 question

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