Adobe Interview Questions

Excerpts from Interview #1:

• Implement a 2D bit-matrix representing monochrome pixels which will have only OFF/ON values and will take on an average only one bit of memory for each stored bit. How to perform various operations on it?
• Basic problems on geometry on circles and tangents.
• Tell me about different OS related issues for a given set of C-programs (mainly address issues address space, paging etc.)
• Solve the Convex Hull problem.
• Discuss the role of C++ shorthands.
• Execute the qsort () in c/sort() in c++ library or your own custom sort which will sort any type of data on user defined criteria.
• Can you write the function prototype, definition and mention the other requirements.

• Basic HR questions about personality development and work experience.
• What are your future plans?
• What are your strengths? Weakness?
• If you could be any animal, what would it be?
• How can you contribute to this company?
• What kind of a manager would you be?
• How would you describe your ideal job?
• Why did you choose this career?
• When did you decide on this career?

Excerpts from Interview #2:

• Model a data structure for a DFA that takes an event as parameter and performs a desired action.
• Write a code that efficiently counts the total Set Bits in a number.
• Write a code that efficiently calculates X power n where x and n are integers.
• Write a code that calculates the nth term of Fibonacci series.
• What is Synchronization? What is Mutex? Explain the Reader Writer Problem
• What are conditional operators?
• What is meant by exit controlled loop?
• What do you know about Volatile keyword? Explain with an example code.

• Basic HR questions were asked about personality and work experience.

Excerpts from Interview #3:

• How will you execute a stack using a priority queue? (Push and pop should be in O (1)).
• Solve the three mislabelled jars problem.
• How does stack look in function calls? Write a recursive function call, how will the stack look like?
• When does stack (process stack) overflow? What are the remedies?
• When should structures be passed by values or by references?
• When a function is called in thread, what variables can be accessed from it. There was a long discussion on this too. I went in the wrong direction but corrected myself later. Stack variables are copied but heap variables are same.

• HR questions on personality & career choices.
• Are you a goal-oriented person?
• Tell me about some of your recent goals and what you did to achieve them.
• What are your short-term goals?
• What is your long-range objective?
• What do you see yourself doing five years from now?
• Where do you want to be ten years from now?

Excerpts from Interview #4:

• Questions on DNS server(full working), ARP protocol etc.
• How will you print a list of all unique words from a string which may contain repeated words?
• How does stack look in function calls? When does stack overflow? What can you do to remedy it?
• What are the different layers in TCP/IP model? What are the protocols associated with each layer?
• What is the meaning of the following declaration: int *const *const *i?
• Mention the default functions in C++, how would you detect that error has occurred inside the constructor and destructor.

• With your IIT rank and AIEEE rank, why did you chose this particular college?
• Then tell some unique and different quality that you possess which makes you a more desirable candidate for the company?
• What is your long-range objective?
• What do you see yourself doing five years from now?
• Where do you want to be ten years from now?
• Do you handle conflict well?
• Why do you want to work in adobe? What is my weakness and how will I overcome it?
• You are not among the toppers, where do you stand(rank) in your class, what is the reason of your low performance?

Excerpts from Interview #5:

• Explain the Canny’s Algorithm.
• Tell us two differences between new () and malloc ()?
• What is C++11?
• Write the syntax and purpose of a switch statement.
• What are pure virtual functions?
• Describe the different styles of function prototypes in C++.
• Explain accessors to a layman.
• What is role of void keyword in declaring functions?

• How much salary do you expect?
• Tell us something about yourself that is not on your resume.
• What is more important for you – Money or Job Profile?
• What major problem have you had to deal with recently?
• Do you handle pressure well?
• What is your greatest strength?
• What is your greatest weakness?
• A frog starts climbing a 30-ft wall. Each hr he climbs 3 ft and slips back 2. How many days does it take him to reach the top and get out?
• Why don’t you have much extra curricular activities?

Excerpts from Interview #6:

• What is an OS? Explain it to a layman.
• What is calloc()?
• How can one application use same API provided by different vendors at the same time?
• If you are given the name of the function at run time how will you invoke the function?
• What is the best data structure and algorithm to implement cache?
• Difference between Call by pointer and by reference.
• What is latest update of C++ ?
• Explain the term virtual machine?
• Write a program to find height of a binary tree? What is the complexity of the above program?
• What is the use of pointers?

• Introduce yourself. What are your hobbies?
• What are your plus points and negative points?
• Why should you be preferred over others?
• In which extra-curricular activities have you participated?
• How familiar are you with the community that we're located in?
• Will you relocate? In the future?
• Are you willing to travel? How much?
• Arrange the given words in a meaningful sequence:
  1.District   2.Village  3.State   4.Town
• Is money important to you?
• How much money do you need to make to be happy?