Good place to work.. just stay out of IT - Anonymous employee Adobe Employee Review

2.0
Apr 11, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great company culture and benefits and work life balance.

Cons

Terrible upper management style. Company goes through a massive re-org every 18-24 months. They reduce their workforce by 10% only to hire that many people back in the next quarter. To move up you have kiss ass and play the dirty corporate politics "Indian" style. Your success is directly proportional to how many high-ranked Indians you know here. If you happen to be an Indian, great place to work! If you are not an India, stay away!! And stay away from Adobe IT. That is where careers go to die!

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* 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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