Generally happy with Adobe. - Senior Product Manager Adobe Employee Review

4.0
Jul 5, 2008
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Pros

Adobe has a lot of great products. That means as an employee there is always something interesting going on and you can pretty much choose to work on a variety of different things if you want to move around within the company. The people at Adobe are also very smart and fun to work with. Our customers are some of the best people in the world and they generally love our products. Getting to interact with designers and developers using Adobe's tools is a lot of fun. The benefits are very, very good and in I think for the most part everyone has a good work-life balance.

Cons

Adobe has a leadership/direction problem. We have good management but a lot of times management appears to have trouble making hard decisions. As a result the company seems to move in a million different directions with little products popping up and going away with no thought as to how they fit into the overall mission. Although we don't really have much of an overall mission which is maybe part of the problem. I don't think management has done a good enough job of really focusing on what our goals our. As an employee that can be frustrating and tough to deal with.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

* Refreshing focus on employee wellness * Brilliant colleagues * Compelling problems on interesting tools * Good work/life balance culture... generally (see cons) I've been at a few big tech companies and Adobe is one of my favorites. I feel empowered to make impactful changes here, I'm constantly stretching myself in fun ways, and the products we make are incredible. Product and engineering have big dreams, and all the resources we need to realize them.

Cons

* 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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