Adobe Reviews

Pros

good office
indoor and outdoor sports facilities

Cons

management dumb
senior management have no idea of how to evaluate new recruits
office politics and partiality
blindly support older employees over newer ones

Advice to Senior Management

open your mind and eyes
what's with the ass-licking and office politics

Pros

Great ESPP plan for benefit

Cons

Too many re-organization and lay off, not enough resource to do any project with high quality

Pros

Adobe has great people working for it all over the place. I think the benefits package is fine and we have a decent number of perks without going over the top like Google.

Cons

Adobe is feeling like a bigger and slower company. It's unclear if it will be able to adapt to the new world of software and be a place of cool innovation.

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership is still losing credibility when it comes to the vision of the company moving forward. We need to prove success to provide confidence that we're on the right path.

Pros

Fun, fast-paced environment
Benefits are extremely generous
Compensation is fair
Culture is what sets this company apart
Company really invests in its employees
Career advancement is empasized/encouraged

Cons

Some employees are underutilized and responsibilities are too rigid.

Advice to Senior Management

Transparency for employees is important. I felt that Sr. Management was sometimes overly optimistic or was too vague in explaining poor stock performance. However, please continue your efforts (Management) to make/keep this a great place to work and build a career.

Pros

It provides flexible hours. It's good for the engineers who want to work remotely. I have never met a couple of engineers in the same group for about four years. It provides a good benefit package. It has good QA teams.

Cons

No innovation, that's a biig problem in this company. It tries to retain the senior engineers (more thatn 10, 15 years with the company) because they can read/understand the lagacy code. Managers are afraid of losing them. Managers cut loose the less senior ones if downsized.

Advice to Senior Management

The company needs new "blood" from outside. The new college gradutes are not new "blood". Try to recruit engineers from Google, Microsoft, and the others. Seniority kiils the innovation.

Pros

* interesting technology
* sharp and friendly people
* very good working environment
* professional and competent atmosphere
* metrics driven decisions

Cons

* large company so takes awhile to learn
* some overlapping projects
* multiple offices occasionally cause tough logistics when projects are spread between them

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to provide good information about competitors and how Adobe plans to compete. Also, would be interesting to know how an enterprise strategy will be articulated.

Pros

Career growth, Adobe China is a fast growing company, there is lots of opportunity to grow.
Friendly atmosphere, team lead and managers are friendly.
Healthcare benefits

Cons

Crowded workspace
Air conditioner doesn't work very well during summer time.

Pros

free software for the workers

Cons

too much process to do our work

Advice to Senior Management

less process to improve our efficiency and worker's moral

Pros

You really learn a lot and since it is consulting, you get to work with some really smart and great people from other companies. You know what is going on in many different industries.

Cons

Although you learn a lot and meet great people at other companies, the management within Omniture is really bad. Promotions are given out based on friendship and politics to people that don't deserve them and aren't capable of leading or managing others.

At least at Adobe Digital, employees are treated very unfairly, talked down to, reprimanded both in front of others and privately and you are only as good as you next mistake. You are given way too much work for one person to handle and then chastised when you make one mistake. And this is not just my opinion, the proof is in the pudding. In San Francisco, the Adobe Digital team has hired over a dozen people in the last 2 years with all but one quitting prior to reaching their year mark (and Adobe pays out nice money for reaching a year). Yet they still tell interviewees what a wonderful place to work it is.

Meanwhile, the managers of these disgruntled employees keep getting promoted and praised because the consulting group is still very profitable based on the premium they get for carrying the Adobe name. They are profitable and that seems to be all the VPs care about. The incredible part is that upper management is aware of these issues because of countless HR complaints, surveys and the out-of-control turnover, but they'd rather turn over the entire work force than fire the people responsible for the mess.

Do yourself a favor and away from Adobe Digital and possibly even Omniture altogether. Check out the Adobe software business itself. I hear they are much happier.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees.
Thing long term success based on investing on your human assets rather than short term profits and losing your best people.
Treat everyone with respect, even those you aren't trying to impress.
Get rid of the people that are quickly ruining what used to be a great part of your company.

Pros

- lots of time off
- great health care
- stock purchase programs

Cons

as a massive organization, you get the following issues:
- product direction changes almost daily
- change comes very slowly
- sales and engineering run everything and are seldom aligned
- nothing every gets executed well, and there is a frequently a mad dash at the end of projects

Advice to Senior Management

Slow down, and focus on aligning your existing business units for a while.