Adobe is a great company overall - Anonymous employee Adobe Employee Review

4.0
Aug 6, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great culture, fantastic benefits, unbelievably smart people, great/exciting products and market leading solutions. Management genuinely cares about the employees and customers. Adobe products have a significant impact on the world as we know it even if it isn't apparently obvious to the average Joe on the street. A there are a lot of long term employees which is a testament to the culture that was started by our founders and continue today.

Cons

Decision by consensus at times gets in the way of progress. Internal processes suck and get in the way of things from time to time. Career paths can be limited in some roles - recent focus has been to hire from the outside vs. promoting from within.

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Pros

* Refreshing focus on employee wellness * Brilliant colleagues * Compelling problems on interesting tools * Good work/life balance culture... generally (see cons) I've been at a few big tech companies and Adobe is one of my favorites. I feel empowered to make impactful changes here, I'm constantly stretching myself in fun ways, and the products we make are incredible. Product and engineering have big dreams, and all the resources we need to realize them.

Cons

* Big time crunch culture around arbitrary goals By far my biggest disappointment has been just how hard product pushes on big projects with arbitrary deadlines and difficult scope. It turns into cutting corners and delivering sub-par experiences even though we absolutely have the talent and capability to make some exceptional things if we just let the dang thing bake a few more months. I'd be more impressed with the tight clip if the goals were reasonable for good business reasons, but as far as I can tell the reason usually boils down to "some high-level manager wanted X and thought Y sounded like a good target date". * Comp growth leaves something to be desired. Raises feel pretty flat, though it's not the worst thing since stock rewards can be pretty good as appropriate for performance. Career progression is pretty good here too - I just find it odd how stale the base pay increases are year to year.

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