Adobe reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(10,101 total reviews)
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Shantanu Narayen

87% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Adobe has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,101 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Adobe employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Mar 14, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Family-oriented benefits, great product momentum on Marketing Cloud and great brand with Photoshop.

Cons

Not a lot of options for career-development relative to other companies. Odd characters in executive management on the Creative Cloud side. Too hard to get stuff done- so many councils, committees and job overlap, micro-manager execs. Creates a lot of churn where you're really busy, but not on customer-facing value-added work.

4.0
Jan 15, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Adobe as a company really seems to care about the well being of it's employees. They have very competitive benefits and will always get you the hardware / software you want to do your job. Most of the offices have done really well to hire a diverse group of people and it seems to be really benefiting the company.

Cons

The office in Lehi has retained a lot of the old management from a previous acquisition that was based in Utah. This has brought with it a very polarized staff who work under the assumption that everyone is just like them. The hiring practices and management reflect this as well. Management doesn't seem to want to take action until you have had a problem. Never before when you are telling them that there is going to be one. Additionally, if you are a performer, the workload will just pile on to that individual. There area a lot of under-performers who are content with just doing minimal amount of work and much of the management enjoys this type who don't have any drive. Finally, at times, there is minimal amount of communications from your manager to you about how they feel you are performing and what that will mean at review time. You are very often left guessing what compensation will be right up until you just receive an email.

5.0
Dec 9, 2015

So far, so good!

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Perks, salary and benefits are great. The culture is very positive. I get to work with some extremely smart people and the social atmosphere is very friendly. They are also really good about letting you move to other positions within the company once you are an employee, so there are infinite ways to grow your career, which is great, because I don't want to go anywhere. Without negotiating, they gave me a generous stock award as a signing bonus (pretty sure that's standard) and they also have an insane employee stock purchasing plan that allows you to buy Adobe stock at a 15% discount from the lowest price over a 2 year period... It's free money.

Cons

I haven't found any yet... I mean, if you hate working for a big company, it might not be your thing. That said, there are a lot of small teams within Adobe that work like smaller companies, but with the benefit of the cushy benefits and stability of a big company like Adobe.

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