Adobe reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(10,102 total reviews)
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64% positive business outlook

Adobe has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,102 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
Oct 16, 2015

Just an OK place to work

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Pros

- great time off benefits - great work/life balance - flexible work schedule - on-site gym - on-site cafe - nice facilities - reasonable salary

Cons

- too many meetings - lots of non-technical people managing technical teams - does not hire the best talent - teams are too silo'ed - too many cooks in the kitchen with contradictory recipes - bland company culture - the Dilbert principle

3.0
Sep 14, 2015
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Pros

I had a great general experience at Adobe for the 5 years I worked there. The company has a clear road map and knows how to get there. I particularly enjoyed the opportunities of giving back to the community that were sponsored by Adobe. The values of the company are ingrained in the company, specially in the Creative Side (original Adobe: Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator,etc.) of the company, and little less in the Digital Marketing (ex Omniture) part of the company. Big Pro: sabbatical every 5 years (4 paid weeks onthe 5th anniversary, 5 weeks on 10th and on), plus 1 paid week of vacation in July and other one onhte December Holidays, to that Adobe adds 2 extra weeks of vacations.

Cons

I personally had a not good experience within the Systems Architect group in the Target division. The expectations where high but not clear; some contradicting guidelines as "all our clients are important, no special treatment" but when something happened to a big client then it was "this is a special client, you have to give priority to it" (and push back on other medium size clients). Also the direct manager stopped sending birthday celebration emails, congratulations for work anniversary, I felt the only point of work was the number of billed hours. The surrounding of the 410 Townsend office are a little shady and it is not uncommon to find garbage laying around in the section that is supposed to be a sidewalk. The surroundings of 601 Townsend are great and clean. Social interaction at the 410 Townsend office is not good and the building is 3/4 empty on a normal work day with all teh people that work from home.

3.0
Jul 22, 2015

Enterprise Sales

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Pros

Like the Cheers theme song..."where everybody knows your name"...Adobe is a clear leader in both the creative and marketing technology spaces so there are few challenges in getting meetings. The Marketing Cloud platform truly does it all for the most advanced and deep-pocketed digital Marketers. Large Company health benefits, expense accounts, and the events put together and attended are top-notch.

Cons

Lots of turnover and unhappy clients as a result of the turnover. So many levels of management that the amount of pressure put on the sales teams is absurd and every level of success and goal accomplished will be replaced by an even larger one. Getting contracts completed in a timely fashion tended to be a challenge. Salesforce is a mess due to so many acquisitions and not a lot of clean-up.

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