Not in NA or India? You'll be surprised! - Strategic Account Specialist Adobe Employee Review

3.0
Mar 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good salaries, Facilities, Flexibility, Benefits

Cons

Bad management: 100% focus on objectives & bonuses, not taking any risk at raising issues they aware of to the higher management Company focused on North America & India for investments: don't expect to get the same investments globally in every regions. The strategy is to keep NA employees (usually managers & highly qualified engineers) happy and have as much employees in India as possible (they are cheap). Investment are made in these 2 regions. Elsewhere, you have to part of Sales organisation to get some investments. Enablement is almost inexistant if you're not part of Sales related organisations or management. Career development (at least in EMEA) is just as simple and annoying as being an external person applying for a job at Adobe. No rotation to have taste of other positions, If you want to try another position you have to apply and get interviewed exactly as any external applicant. Being already from Adobe won't help. Except if you already work with the product covered by the job. There is no allocated budget per teams/heads. Senior Management decide who gets what on request and if they have not use most of the budget for themselves. The company made a lot of profits over the past 4-5 years, but I personally didn't notice any change at work. Really feels like the 20%/80% rule: 20% of the people getting/having 80% of the resources.

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Cons

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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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