Company profile
Adobe
Adobe makes Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, the Creative Cloud suite, and the Experience Cloud marketing stack, with Firefly as its generative-AI line. Interviews are friendlier and more product-focused than the FAANG average, with strong weight on craft and on the candidate's portfolio for design-adjacent roles.
The Adobe interview process
Adobe interviews are friendlier and more product-focused than the FAANG average, with strong weight on craft. For design-adjacent roles your portfolio carries real weight, and engineering rounds lean toward practical problem solving over trick questions. The pace is calmer and the tone collaborative.
- 1
Recruiter screen
Fit and team match.
- 2
Technical or portfolio
Practical coding, or portfolio review for design roles.
- 3
Onsite rounds
Domain depth, design, and collaboration.
- 4
Manager and fit
Working style and craft sensibility.
What Adobe is looking for
What they value
- Evidence of craft in shipped work or portfolio
- Practical problem solving over puzzle tricks
- A collaborative, considered approach
Culture signals in the loop
- Craft and quality in the product
- Collaborative, lower-ego working style
- Creativity valued alongside engineering rigor
Questions and process by role
Adobe hires across several engineering and product functions, and the loop shifts with each one. Open a role for the reported questions, the round-by-round focus, and a salary band for that function.
- ML engineer
ML engineer interview questions and process at Adobe.
engineering - AI engineer
AI engineer interview questions and process at Adobe.
ai - AI infrastructure engineer
AI infrastructure engineer interview questions and process at Adobe.
ai - AI red team engineer
AI red team engineer interview questions and process at Adobe.
ai - AI research engineer
AI research engineer interview questions and process at Adobe.
research - Design systems engineer
Design systems engineer interview questions and process at Adobe.
design - Frontend engineer
Frontend engineer interview questions and process at Adobe.
engineering - MLOps engineer
MLOps engineer interview questions and process at Adobe.
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Salary signal
Approximate senior median pay for Adobe's core roles, anchored to San Francisco and modeled from BLS, ONS, and Levels.fyi reference medians. These are market bands for the role and city, not Adobe offers. Open a role for the full city-by-city table.
Employee reviews
Adobe holds a 4.0 Glassdoor rating. External review scores are directional signals. Treat them as context alongside the specific team, location, level, and hiring manager you are interviewing with.
Glassdoor 4.0