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      4.1

      82% would recommend to a friend

      (10,105 total reviews)
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      Shantanu Narayen

      86% approve of CEO

      63% positive business outlook

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      Adobe has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,105 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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      5.0
      May 27, 2010

      Great place to work, but like all other places, there are areas for improvement.

      Legal counsel
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      Pros

      Most of my colleagues are super--smart, hard-working, team-players, operate in the best interests of the company. Great innovation--it is incredible how much innovation is going on within the company. Cool products, cool brand, users love Adobe!

      Cons

      Organization is pretty flat, so some feel potential promotions is more limited. Consensus-driven company (although in some cases is a good thing, it can bog down decision making, especially at the very top levels of the company). Pay could be better--not sure how HR does its benchmarking, but we seem to have lower salaries than my colleagues at other high-tech companies in the Valley.

      3.0
      Mar 1, 2010

      Nice place to work. Don't expect to move up.

      Senior software engineer
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Adobe is full of very smart, friendly, talented people. You get to work on some really interesting products. There's a good work/life balance. It's a blue-chip company that probably isn't at much risk of failing. You may get a fairly competitive offer when you are first hired.

      Cons

      In my first 9 years, during boom times, I had no promotions and no raises beyond cost of living (and not always even that). I'm good at what I do, but I didn't take career management seriously enough during those 9 years. No one so much as mentioned the word "career" to me until this year. I finally managed a promotion and a small raise; it was like pulling teeth. Adobe is crowded with talented people, and focuses pretty heavily on cost control, and unless you're lucky, it's hard to find ways to move up.

      4.0
      Jan 2, 2010

      Comfortable but not world-changing

      Senior computer scientist
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      Pros

      - Very reasonable hours; I almost never work weekends (only about once a year during "crunch time"). - Very friendly place to work, not at all confrontational or competitive. - People at Adobe are less nerdy than at some other companies, perhaps due to all the design-oriented products that the company makes. - I think the company is in a fairly good place in terms of future growth potential. - Steep discounts (about as steep as you can get) on all those great Adobe products.

      Cons

      - Although my peers are pretty good programmers, they are not as good as the people I used to work with at another large software company. - Adobe is not the kind of place that is "changing the world" in the way that Apple and Google are.

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