Bait and switch - - Product Success Manager Adobe Employee Review

1.0
Apr 17, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Adobe is the most beautiful fools gold I have ever experienced. They poached me and many others I know from stable positions at other companies. Threw money at us to be on a team that was constant chaos and dysfunction. Only to lay off everyone SIX MONTHS later. Run. Don’t walk away from this nightmare. Unless you are a good ole boy fresh out of college. They love them. Salary was amazing but to be without a job wasn’t worth leaving a stable mid-range level position at another company.

Cons

Everything. When you think of Adobe, you think of photoshop and illustrator as well as tech and stability. They don’t want us talking about it, but they are internally very cishet WHITE Mormon male focused. If you do not fit this or agree with their values, you WILL be removed. I have seen it time and time again. I have heard that the managers are secretly pretty discriminatory towards people of color and lgbt. The people of color in management positions are few and far between. If there is one, like one of the directors in mid-market, they are tap dancing for said cishet folks above them. Not progressive as they make it seem.

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- Awesome culture. I love going to work every day. People are really nice - exciting to be in the industry where a lot of innovation is happening - good work life balance - flexible RTO - two one-week shutdowns per year, unlimited PTO, global wellness days, great benefits

Cons

- Leadership lost its way. Missed huge opportunities in markets served by Canva and GenAI. Took the wrong bet on commercially safe models, missing out on huge opportunities that were captured by competing GenAI models. No clear strategy or vision from management about how to get back in track. Our products are losing market share every day and management seems to be lime deer in headlights, unsure what to do - Watching stock price deflating nearly every day is disheartening - Decision making is very slow. Takes ages to get things approved. - C-suite is mostly over 50 and often seem out of touch with latest AI and tech trends. Uphill battle sometimes to get them to see urgent opportunities that need to be acted on immediately - Adobe failed to organically develop major products in the last 20 years. Major recent ones; Firefly and Express; have not been successful.

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