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      4.1

      82% would recommend to a friend

      (10,095 total reviews)
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      Shantanu Narayen

      87% approve of CEO

      64% positive business outlook

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      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      Adobe has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,095 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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      4.0
      Aug 6, 2009

      Adobe is a great company overall

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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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.

      4.0
      May 31, 2009

      One of the best out there, but a few things to improve

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Adobe is home to a ton of extremely smart and hard-working people, many of whom (not surprisingly) are also artistic or musically inclined. It's a real pleasure to work with such a diverse and interesting bunch of colleagues. Work-life balance is taken very seriously at Adobe, so despite the intense workload people have the resources and support to avoid burnout. It's fun to work for a company with the level of name recognition that Adobe has, although everyone you know will expect you to teach them how to use Photoshop (even if you work in a completely different BU). Job security. Unless you're a complete screwup or in a bad skills-job match, the odds that you will be laid off from Adobe are low. The number of people with 5, 7, or even 10 years of time in at Adobe is high.

      Cons

      The flip side of job security is that turnover at Adobe is quite low and promotions are very hard to come by. The "bench strength" at Adobe is very deep. If you want to move up the ladder, cultivate patience. However, if you're OK with staying at your current level you will have the opportunity to work on different projects and learn new skills. One of the more intangible issues at Adobe is the Adobe - Macromedia cultural divide. Even 4 years post-merger, the lines between old and new Adobe are clear to see. Depending on which BU you're working in, Adobe can be either a slow moving, hard to change beast or a fast moving, exciting, more entrepreneurial organization. On an interpersonal level everyone gets along OK, but the differences in how stuff gets done causes issues when trying to work cross-BU. The difference between the SF and SJ offices is emblematic of this cultural issue. The SJ office, although very nice, is staid and corporate. The SF office is much more open and comfortable.

      4.0
      May 15, 2009

      Good internship

      Strategy intern
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Coolest technology for creative people in the world.

      Cons

      Success hides a lot of sin. Adobe is a packaged softwared company...might have a hard time transitioning to the future online. Big big company

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