Kickoff words for my blog
My first day in Adobe was Mar 18, 2009, which is my lucky day. It was a funny trip getting prepared and going through interviews by Adobe, I was greatly impressed by the cool work environment and nice people therein.
It totally took me 2 failures before I finally made a successful shot in Flash Player team. I received the first interview appointment call when I was in new year vacation at home, it was a nice lady’s voice, asking me to take the initial face2face interview at 22nd floor, A tower of Tsinghua Science Park, it was a moment of excitement – the first step forward to this great company.
I booked ticket to Beijing immediately and take train back the second day to catch up with the interview on that weekend, a beautiful Sunday with clean sunshine. I failed this interview with the interviewing manager’s comment “guy, you’re young for this senior position, I would call you later once I have positions suitable for you”, she did call me later on but at that moment I was already a member of Flash Player.
The second call for interview is from another QE team, I spent the whole night picking up test related knowledge before the interview day, I had very happy talk with the interviewers and go through 3 rounds of interviews smoothly, however, the final interviewer told me that “you are a very good developer with quite comprehensive theoretical knowledge for test, but the pity is you did little test work in your previous work,” once again, I failed.
Memories of those days are always popping up in my mind together with the beautiful songs by Jack Johnson, he’s a really cool man singing really cool songs, you could hear “never know” in “Sculpting in time Cafe”@ Wudaokou or you could come across “good people” in a CD store along Houhai street in a sunny Sunday afternoon. The songs fed me with passion and momentum to march on my Adobe road.
Up to now, I have been here for 1 year and 18 days, I would say this is a cool company with nice people, a company that would provide everyone with opportunities for personal development, there of course are shortcomings in some aspects but I believe Adobe China will be more and more successful in coming years as more and more elites are coming to join.