I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Adobe (Austin, TX) in Sep 2020
Interview
The interview was for the Magento product with a hiring Manager in Culver City, CA. The interviewer started out with saying that even though they had all of these programming languages, I wouldn't have to be an expert in any of them or a developer or anything, but basically most questions clients have come down to misunderstanding on what's possible or misconfiguration and then occasionally a bug to test out and escalate.
I told him that was basically exactly what I had done at both of my previous support positions and gave some examples. I explained I had looked through their help center guide and named common issues I would anticipate based on that and how to address. I said I understood it would probably involve a lot of guidance on database administration to clients and ways to check, to fix errors and for optimization. I said I anticipated setting up my own test shops and dummy data to test out things.
Every time I would start to get a little bit technical, he would just re-assure me that it wasn't a requirement to be an expert in this area or that. He would casually dismiss. And he was reassuring me the entire interview that he agreed with my answers on various things. He did not probe at all. I also did mention that I would look at previous cases and resolutions to inform and build product knowledge and ideas.
We talked about my career goals and if I want to be a developer? I said no, I don't want to be a developer, though I reminded him that I had built some very basic projects (trying to throw in technical skills) and I said I would like to continue to build my skills as a support engineer or go into testing products or something similar. He laughed and agreed and said he didn't want to be a developer either and he understood.
Then we talked about the Magento acquisition by Adobe and I got an impression it was uncomfortable one, but we kind of laughed it off. Again, very casual and his responses were always positive to what I was saying and telling me he agreed and understood.
I assumed after this I would have more rounds of technical aptitude tests or sample questions on the product or something, but instead I was given the feedback that "it was nice talking, but I didn't have "deep enough troubleshooting skills". This was interesting because there would have been no way to assess this. I had studied on the technologies listed before the interview and wasn't asked much of anything specifically technical. He would have had no way to know this. Given that I have multiple references from former supervisors attesting to my persistent and capable troubleshooting skills, it would have been courteous and fair to at least test me on them, but that didn't happen.
I assume there was something else about me that colored his thinking. And though I have no way to know if it played a part, it's notable that there are no women on the Magento Support team, FYI.
I applied online. I interviewed at Adobe (San Jose, CA)
Interview
Recruiter called. Talked to hiring manager called. Went to the interview. They asked questions. I answered most of them. Then nothing. No is an answer and would be appreciated but nothing. Front desk was nice but Ipad to log in didn't work .. and receptionist said it was a known issue that a big company like Adobe hasn't solved. Very surprising
I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Adobe (Remote, OR) in Jun 2019
Interview
HR calls you up and asks you about 5 questions that the hiring manager wants her to ask. She goes back to hiring manager with yoru answers. If they are interested they set up a technical interview through some other HR person. You are interviewed on camera (they even tell you that they have to see you and hear you at 'all times' which is odd). The second HR person is the one that tells you what their feedback is.