Amazing innovative company led by awful management - Marketing Adobe Employee Review

3.0
Nov 14, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- collaborative workspace, with great departments ready to support each other - amazing first month, until a new manager was unboarded

Cons

- a company led by toxic management (not all managers but quite a few) - hierarchical dominance - micromanaged at every aspect - promoted by title and no payrise - once you ask for a payrise, they'll make your life hell - Good people have left the business or been made redundant - Not many stand up to their managers, making those that do labelled "hard" to work with - many stuck there due to personal situation - a lot of favouritism - hard to be yourself, got to know how to play the game

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Cons

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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.

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