It was a great process up until the end, when I was completely ghosted. I had been referred and went through every stage of the interview process, making it to the final two candidates. The process took about two months in total.
It started when a friend referred me. A few days later, the recruiter reached out to set up a call with the hiring manager for the following week. After that call, another two weeks passed before I had three separate one-on-one interviews with team members, all on the same day. About a week later, they scheduled the final skip-level interview with the hiring manager’s boss, which took place another week after that. (To be fair, Memorial Day and Adobe’s summer shutdown week both fell during this process.)
The interviews themselves were pretty easy — mostly behavioral questions that felt more like conversations. However, the skip-level interview felt off from the start, almost like she didn’t want to be there.
Immediately after the final interview, I asked about their timeline for making a decision but never got a response. I waited a couple of weeks and followed up, but heard nothing. A week later, my friend who referred me told me they had chosen the other finalist, who was an internal candidate.
It’s crazy to think they put me through the entire process without the decency to give me any feedback or even reply to my email. The following week, I received the generic automated rejection email. What’s more frustrating is that Adobe’s own career site says candidates will receive feedback. Instead, I was ghosted. Very disappointing, especially since this was my dream company. At least give people feedback as advertised.
