Management Sucks! - CSAM Adobe Employee Review

1.0
Jul 16, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I don't know about the Bangalore office but yeah there are couple of reasons you might want to start a career here. a) Gym is fine just to relax a bit if you are in sales. b) You can play sports. c) Benefits are awesome.

Cons

Well, I can take eternity to write this down but will keep this in bullet points to make this easier to understand. a) Do not ever get in the sales process that is the 5th floor. It is Adobe within Adobe. b) The managers and directors are from domestic call centers and have made a culture of talk-time and connects to keep a track of your daily activity. c) You will be given a great designation as "Account manager" but the work you do is of a collection agent. d) You need to lick your management for growth or to be on their good side. e) No growth opportunities and if you need working for more than a year you will feel that no skills are left for you to tap on. The skills you came with will be far gone. f) The team set up is like beggars, they will eat you even for like mere 100 rupees for a sale. g) Unethical sales is the way to go here. If you are going the right way they might take you down and ask you to follow ways just to get some revenue. h) HR has no say in this and even the ERC is all in the pocket of the management. They are all scripted actors just trying to make your life hell.

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* 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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