Adobe SDE2 Interview Guide
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Design Adobe Experience Cloud's customer data platform. Unify customer profiles from website visits, email clicks, and CRM data across devices and sessions. Cover identity resolution (same person on mobile and desktop), real-time segment computation, and privacy (GDPR right-to-erasure).
Design Adobe Sign (e-signature platform). A contract is sent to 5 signatories who must sign in a specific order. Cover: document integrity (hash verification), audit trail, legal compliance (e-SIGN Act), and what happens if a signatory refuses.
Design Adobe's document collaboration system (similar to Google Docs for PDFs). Multiple users can annotate and comment on a PDF simultaneously. Cover: conflict-free annotation merging, storing annotation deltas vs full snapshots, real-time sync via WebSockets, and how you export the final annotated PDF.
Adobe moved from perpetual licenses to Creative Cloud subscriptions. Describe a time you were part of a major product pivot or architecture migration. How did you manage the technical debt and user impact?
Explain how font rendering works at the operating system level. How does Adobe handle vector-to-raster conversion (hinting, anti-aliasing) for different DPI screens? Why do fonts look different on Windows vs macOS?