Adobe Emeryville Sucks! - Software Development Engineer In Test Adobe Employee Review

1.0
Mar 10, 2019
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Pros

Benefits & Stocks! Location - for emeryville office.

Cons

The Adobe Emeryville offfice - Its actually not a true Adobe office. Its a tubemogul company which is basically a adtech company acquired by Adobe later. The Ad cloud of Adobe is not doing well and hence there's not much focus on quality or any new exciting initiatives & the growth rate is literally slowing down. Better beware of this company & do not get fooled by the name Adobe. I got 3 offers(Adobe, another big fortune 500 tech and a startup) & I chose this offer mainly fooled by the brand Adobe, location + benefits & stocks. But, after couple of months joining I really repented a lot for making the decision as the work or the growth of adtech portfolio of Adobe is literally slowing down and even their technology stack is not so exciting to work or learn. Their office space sucks and its a damn old building in emeryville and not like a corporate atmosphere. If you have multiple offers, better stay away from this Adobe Emeryville office(Adobe Ad cloud), atleast for the sake of your good. I'm currently out of them and my experience with them was I just wasted my 1 year of my career with them without learning anything new or exciting to my interest.

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Cons

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