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Went through the Adobe Experience Cloud loop last month, here's what actually happened

frontend_fran · 4 replies

Just finished my Adobe loop for a senior front-end role on the Analytics team. Took about 5 weeks start to finish, which felt reasonable.

Recruiter screen was pretty standard: background, why Adobe, comp range. She was organized and gave me a clear timeline upfront, which I appreciated. Then a 45-min call with the hiring manager who went deep on my experience with component systems and how I'd handled a performance regression in production. Not a gotcha, just a real conversation.

The technical screen was on Coderpad, 60 minutes: one medium-difficulty algorithm problem (sliding window) and then a React component build from a wireframe. The component build was honestly more interesting. They wanted to see how I thought about state management and accessibility, not just whether it rendered.

On-site was 5 back-to-back on Zoom. Two coding, one system design (build a notification system, classic), one behavioral-only, and then a "values" round with a senior IC who asked almost entirely about conflict and collaboration. That last one caught me a little off-guard. I'd prepared comp and design patterns but underinvested on the STAR stories.

Got the offer. L5. Salary came in a bit under what I expected but RSUs were decent. Worth doing your research on their leveling before you get to the offer stage.

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returner_ren

the values round with a senior IC is a detail I've never seen mentioned before. was it more of a culture-add conversation or did it feel like another behavioral screen with a checklist?

frontend_fran

honestly felt somewhere in between. it was conversational and he seemed genuinely curious, not reading from a rubric. but the questions were structured: specific situation, what happened, what would you do differently. i think the framing is just softer because it's a senior IC not a manager doing it.

pm_priya

the component build from wireframe is a solid signal. much better than 'reverse a linked list' for understanding how someone actually thinks about product engineering. curious how long you had for that part.

numbers_only

L5 offer: what was the base range? curious if it was close to Levels.fyi numbers or significantly under.