Adobe reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(10,092 total reviews)
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87% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Adobe has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,092 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
Jan 13, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Adobe has a set of great product and talent people. You have a solid base to build upon. The culture is friendly and encourages employee to have a good work/life balance. Productivity is the focus not the face-to-face hours. Benefits are good and you can enjoy low employee price of Adobe's premium products, such as creative suites, etc. San Jose office is a green building. The facility is very good. There are many video conference rooms available for you to communicate with teams across the global. Also in the San Jose office, you can access to an in-house Gym with many good equipments.

Cons

There are several downsides here. First, the core business is largely built upon traditional consumer shrink-wrapped software business model. The model is pretty much dead, threaten by free software, open source, subscription, Saas, etc. The company has not found a new growth area yet. Its enterprise product has not found a market segment after four years trying to create one. Its Saas offering faces many other players which entered this market much earlier than Adobe. Its mobile business had a touch year and future yet to be seen. Secondly, the culture emphasizes on collaboration just too much. You can easily have all day meeting without having made any decision.

4.0
Jan 8, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The salary is competitive and I feel the company as a whole generally cares about the welfare of its employees & treats them well. The benefits are pretty good compared to all the other companies I've worked for previously. ESPP, profit sharing, Commuter Checks, software discounts (huge huge discounts on adobe software), company matching on charitable donations, telecommute. onsite fitness center (SJ office). About the only thing missing is onsite childcare benefits (though i don't have children currently)

Cons

The San Jose office is much more conservative than the SF office. This might be in part due to the older age demographic in the SJ office vs SF (I heard it was like 39 median in SJ and early 30s in SF, this was back in '07 -- i am in my mid 30s). Also, it's pretty hard to get decent pay raises once you get in...though that's the same at any large company.

4.0
Jan 1, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Adobe has historically striven to produce the best of class software anywhere. We come up with innovative ways to solve our customers problems. As such, innovation and quality have been fundamental values that are reenforced over and over at all levels of the management chain.

Cons

The dedication to developing innovative best in class software has suffered since the macromedia acquisition. Moreover, top-down communication has completely fallen apart since the acquisition. Granted, the company is much bigger now, but even most business unit quarterly meetings have been cancelled, and size isn't an excuse for that.

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