Adobe SDE-intern interview questions

Revise DSA specially Linked Lists and Stacks core CS fundamentals mostly DBMS(basic) and OS Revise sorting algorithms. Try to solve question faster if you ain't sure be frank and ask interviewer to ask something else. Be calm and confident.

Adobe’s internship process (₹115K stipend) began with an in-campus online assessment on HackerRank where candidates had to solve 37 questions in 90 minutes out of a total 63 questions across 6 sections (A, B, and F compulsory, one choice among C, D, and E). The paper included core CS subjects (OS, CN, DBMS) with OS questions on page replacement (LRU/MRU), threads/processes, and TLB formulas; CN questions were tricky with protocol and command-based problems; and DBMS was largely code-driven. Another section covered NALR aptitude (number systems, probability, directions, ratios, graphs, etc.). Candidates also faced 13 questions each in C++, Java, and Python, mostly predicting code outputs (C++ being easier, Java tougher with Spring-Boot/Servlets). Finally, there were 2 DSA problems—computing total XOR sum of all subarrays (optimized using prefix XOR) and finding the longest subsequence with total AND > 0 (best solved with DP tabulation). Wrong MCQs carried a ¼ mark penalty, making accuracy as important as speed.