I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Adobe (Bengaluru) in Feb 2019
Interview
One way video interview, followed by atleast 3 remote video conference rounds.
I was referred by a friend, following which the recruiter sent a link for a one way video interview that needed to be completed by a certain deadline. After getting shortlisted, the recruiter scheduled a few interviews with the colleagues from the same team, Technical project managers to interview me. I didn't go through to the 4th round with the hiring manager as I think they were looking for the best candidate for the role or someone was better than me.
Had a phone screen with a recruiter and a video conference with the hiring manager. Had a take-home technical exam.
I was ghosted after submitting the technical portion.
Not bitter about the outcome, but I will say this is the only company I have ever interacted with that asked hours of my time to complete a project and outright ignores me. I've been ghosted on cold-applying for positions, that's fine. Once you start an interaction with a potential employee and ask them for hours of work, you owe them a response as a respectful human and as a professional potential employer.
Never had a more rude process, to be honest.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's the difference between a median and a mode?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Adobe (Denver, CO) in Nov 2018
Interview
I spent a little over a month going through several different steps in the interviewing process, taking quite a bit of time for multiple phone and in-person interviews, compiling resources and materials, etc. Got through to the last stage and then was completely ghosted by the recruiter. If you're going to drag someone through the muck for a month, at least have the decency to say "no."
During the interviews, the conversation was driven by the peer I'd be working with or the VP I'd be reporting to. 90% of the conversation was them complaining about various specific problems they were having. The last stage was 3 hours long - I probably talked for 10 minutes total. It was awkward and uncomfortable. It was almost more of a test of pain endurance than actually discussing the value I could bring to the issues they were having.
In summary: Hiring and recruiting is the first impression of a company, and I can tell they do not value their candidates. Surely they do not value their actual employees. Also, advice for Marketo is to streamline your interview process. This was the messiest and strangest and longest series of interviews I've ever had.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions i was asked were quite specific to problems that they had and were trying to fix. But they were not asked in a logical format of any kind. It was more like "here is a VERY SPECIFIC problem we have, let me complain about it for 15 minutes," then sit in silence and wait for a response from the candidate.