Top Management is a mess. Old company, old practices. - Manager Adobe Employee Review

2.0
Feb 1, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- If you work in a team that focuses on one product, you may enjoy working here. - Great place to work if you want to wait it out until retirement. - Moves very slow, so plenty of time to be spent at home with family.

Cons

- No action on workplace harassment. - It moves so slowly at Adobe that they allow aggressive harassment to continue for years without action. - While the HR team is receptive, the management team will not report harassment as required. - Management team only serves up, never down. - Working there feels like 1995. - They have no competition and they make so much money that there is no desire for change.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- 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.

3.0
Jun 8, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great opportunity to learn from incredibly smart people, many opportunities to continue education, great for independent workers, not so for entry

Cons

Upper management forgets that first line managers need training. You need a thick skin to survive them

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