Basic Information

  • Name Kalp Vyas
  • Curriculum: EE B. Tech.
  • Year of Study: 4th
  • Company/University of Internship: Adobe
  • Year of Internship (eg. ‘23 Summers, ‘22 Winters): 23’ Summers
  • Mode of Internship (Online/Offline/Hybrid): Offline
  • Duration of Internship: 10 weeks

My name is Kalp Vyas, entering my 4th year in B. Tech program in Electrical Engineering. I interned at Adobe during the summer of ‘23. My role was a research intern with more emphasis on software and ML aspects.

Pre-internship:

I had targeted a software role for my internship and had applied for most of the software roles that had come during the internship season. For the tests, I mainly practiced questions from leetcode and codeforces.

Coming to the internship season, I had gotten interviews at Graviton, Qualcomm, DE Shaw, Oracle, and a waitlist in Microsoft before getting selected at Adobe finally. In Graviton and DE Shaw, I was rejected for the interview because I was unable to answer the technical questions asked. In Oracle and Qualcomm, there was almost a fully HR-based interview, and I was rejected after that.

Coming to Adobe, the test had two coding questions and a few CS theory, LA, and probability questions since the company had come for three profiles - Research, Product, and MDSR. One of the questions was simple and implementation based, and the other one was a tougher DP-based problem that was asked to me during my DE Shaw interview, which I wasn’t able to answer, but because of that, I was able to answer it here and did very well in the test. I had applied only for the research intern role and had a single-round interview for it. The interview was taken by an IIT B alum itself, and it was mainly about my resume and my experience in ML. It was a short 15 min interview, after which I was selected for the role.

Internship Experience:

My internship at Adobe is along the lines of Machine Learning, in particular generative AI and LLMs (Large Language Models). It is quite an interesting project, and we were given the project in a group of 3 interns, and 2 mentors were allotted to us. The aim of the project is to get a patentable product or at least a paper out of it, which will be helpful from a master’s point of view as well as from the point of view of the company. The mentors allotted to us were quite helpful, and I enjoyed working on this project. We have daily meets with our mentors where we discuss our progress.

The work culture at Adobe is excellent, and they really value the time and effort you give to the company. There are no fixed timings, and as long as your work is being done, they are satisfied. Further, interns are treated the same way as employees and have access to the entire building and its various amenities, which makes it a very memorable experience. There were also continuous team-building sessions and fun events conducted to make the interns feel more comfortable and interact with everyone.

After the internship:

From a technical point of view, Adobe is one of the best companies to work for if you are interested in machine learning and AI. The work being done there is state of the art, and there are quite a lot of awesome people with amazing knowledge in the field, and I would definitely encourage people to intern here.