Adobe Reviews

Pros

- Neat products - look great - customers like them
- Semi-Flexible hours
- Great salary - commisions just ok

Cons

- Poor senior management (change directions every few months - terrible)
- Poor product quality - terrible bugs still in the product after 5 years
- Layoffs every year - talented folks get let go while lazy political types stay on - well documented
- Adobe is in a nosedive in terms of direction - poor place for secure career
- Vacation policy is directed by each manager - terrible execution
- Get ready for a layoff about a year after you join! Fun Stuff!

Advice to Senior Management

- Quit the lack of direction and switching direction every few months!
- Learn what products you have and learn what value they bring the market before eliminating them
- Talk to your customers - not other execs - ask customers about product quality and how bad it is
- Stop these constant hire a ton of people then 6 months later layoff a ton - very disruptive
- Stop the four letter word usage in major sales meetings by execs - very childish - very unprofessional
- Stop making the acquired company the new management - wow what a mess every time!
- Eliminate the crazy vacation policy which allows each manager to decide how much you get - terribly unfair and poorly handled at the local level

Pros

Flexible working
Great culture
Nice people
Excellent benefits

Cons

No growth opportunities
Constant strategy changes
Performance reviews are irrelevant

Advice to Senior Management

Buy or Sell - need to buy a great new company or sell to Apple

Pros

Work life balance. Leadership in the industry. Resources and support. Company invests heavily in keeping workers abreast of products and works to grow synergies through acquisitions.

Cons

Teams work across broad geo locations which can be challenging. Performance reviews are rather superficial. You won't really know if the quality of your work is any better than satisfactory or not.

Pros

Good product and strong willing to create excellent products to users, and good company culture is another reason to work at adobe

Cons

To face the challenge from Html5, we made some strategy to keep our advantages. and i think there are some risks and chances

Advice to Senior Management

Adobe is a very good company, I wish all the colleagues in Adobe have a bright future in both work and live.

Pros

Good work life balance. Making cool products that help creative people realize their dreams. Decent compensation. Smart, honest, hardworking coworkers. Freedom to run my business as I see fit.

Cons

Complicated internal politics. Strategy changes every year. Becoming more focussed on wall street and quarterly results than our customers and business.

Pros

Well looked after with support services. Feel proud of what it does for the customers and how it realtes. Feel excited about the areas it is investing in.

Cons

Fair bit of overhead that is needed in some parts of the business are thrust upon other parts of the business, that make it less nimble than it should be.

Advice to Senior Management

Strategywise, keep doing what you are doing, and continue to be bold. Look at some of the internal process efficiencies and processes.

Pros

Great PAY, and time off.
Location and parking

Cons

Performance reviews are rather superficial! Your reviews to managers are ignored!
Need to keep it professional with directors and managers.
Poor management leadership!
Laid off great workers and kept the "friends" of managers on board. UNFAIR

Advice to Senior Management

Keep personal issues at home, stop hiring only your friends and laying off hard workers.

Pros

Lots of time off. Easy to coast and get paid pretty freakin well.

Cons

No opportunity for growth. Incompetent management. CEO is clueless.

Advice to Senior Management

Fire Shantanu and stop relying on selling legacy crapware.

Pros

free food w
work life balance

Cons

no growth/
no techinal project
work life balance

Advice to Senior Management

take good projects

Pros

-great pay definitely above industry standards despite experience level
-tons of benefits, which I miss
-products WAS interesting (notice past tense), air and flex had a lot of potential but seems like management didn't feel the same way
-work was fairly interesting
-good availability of technology

Cons

-very clique-y, if you haven't been at the company long enough be ready to feel like an outsider
-SF office definitely had that hipster feel (which is a bad thing), UI/UX had that too cool for school attitude
-management has no faith in the product
-promotions and recognition given to those who can kiss up the most
-in the most recent layoff, it was very funny to see the lazy good-for-nothings stayed on while the technically talented folks got laid off
-"best places to work" is certainly an overhyped title, although pay and benefits were great, culture isn't quite there

Advice to Senior Management

Retain your talented employees and get rid of the bad blood even in times of reorgs. It would be nice to see management have SOME faith in our products