Great Place to work! - Intern Adobe Employee Review

4.0
Dec 9, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Stocked Kitchen, Beer Bashes on Fridays - Lunches are well prepared by chefs (not free though) - Very passionate and smart people - Very fun and relaxed atmosphere to work in. "Work Hard, Play Hard" - Awesome game room - People are very open minded and willing to listen to your opinion and ideas and courteous as well - Good pay, cool perks like free fitness reimbursement

Cons

- Very flat organization structure, hard to get promoted and move onto other positions - Mature company, goes to the first point, a lot of people are settled in their positions so its hard to move up, you may have to go to another company then come back to higher position - The yearly layoffs - Upper management is not taking risks in new products, very conservative and reliant on the core products (photoshop, flash, etc.)

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Cons

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4.0
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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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