Adobe Reviews

I have been working at Adobe

Pros – Great place to work. They really care about their employees

Cons – Lots of people and very diversified. It can be hard to know what is going on at the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Adobe

Pros – * great people -- lots of talented engineers
* great products -- mostly best-of-breed
* great customers -- creating tools for creative customers is fun
* great benefits -- totally solid

Cons – * hard to get new projects to live long enough to reach critical mass (but at least a failing project doesn't necessarily lead to layoffs, like it often used to)

Advice to Senior Management – We should take more risks, letting more projects get a toe-hold. The brand is strong enough to handle more failures.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Adobe

Pros – Good benefits, nice work life balance,telecommuting ok & great facilities

Cons – No leadership or vision for change management
Limited opportunity for advancement
Weak Middle management - very territorial
Frequent reorgs/layoff = chaos and loss of productivity

Advice to Senior Management – Cost cutting comes at a price. Your quality is suffering due to extreme cost cutting measures.
Frequent reorgs and the lack of leadership to transition into reorg has cost the company
Oh & how about innovating - new versions of CS & Acrobat can only do so much.

I have been working at Adobe

Pros – Great environment to work in, they care about you.

Cons – Not enough promoting from within

Advice to Senior Management – Don't play favorites

I have been working at Adobe

Pros – Flexible work hours
Good benefits
Competitive salary
Great relationships with customers
Great work environment
Excellent HR department
Great networking opportunities

Cons – Bureaucratic
Obsolete products and technology
Continuous defocus on core competencies
Unwillingness to take risks with new products
Continuous outsourcing tendencies

Advice to Senior Management – Company needs charismatic leadership which delivers on the vision side.
Dump current long term strategy and refocus the company on core competence areas.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Adobe

Pros – It is good company if you are in right team. If not, you are out of luck.
Good benefits compared to other companies in bayarea.

Cons – Pay is less compared to other companies. If you are in few teams, this is not a problem.You need to check out team before joining.

Advice to Senior Management – Make sure to improve motivation of employees. Setting up vision for company will increase stock price. Bring back bonus to employees.

I have been working at Adobe

Pros – Laid back
Good Products
Good work/life culture

Cons – Laid Back
Bureaucratic
Not enough focus on Internet

Advice to Senior Management – More Internet Focus

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Adobe

Pros – Great software development model, smart business decisions and great work environment. Fun projects and team members.

Cons – Many different sight locations and teams make it a 24 hour shop, at times there is a need to work extremely early or extremely late to meet (via voice) with other persons or teams.

Advice to Senior Management – Discover the working style of your employee and work to empower them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Adobe

Pros – The people I work with at the individual contributor level are amazing! Some of the best technical folks in the field who want to build amazing products.

Cons – Company becoming very top heavy with respect to managers and people who don't actually produce products or technologies.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop squeezing development and QE teams to the point that they are so overextended that they are now beginning to losing overall productivity.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Adobe

Pros – Great products, smart colleagues, generous benefits (health, 401K matching, sabbatical, time off at managers' discretion - this is good if you have an understanding manager), flexible telecommuting program, a friendly, collaborative team atmosphere, pretty buildings with nice offices with doors you can shut, good corporate citizen.

Cons – Limited opportunity for advancement or professional growth. Middle management weak and scared. Too many turf wars. Powerful been-there-forever cliques. Reporting structure lame, it allows family members and romantic relationships to report to one another .Sending too many jobs to India and China, Difficult communication as teams are split up among US, India, China which weakens collaborative efforts, Annual layoffs each year ruin morale.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on innovation. Quit trying to please Wall Street at the expense of your human resources. Try to keep some jobs in the US. Focus on improving the quality of what used to be amazing products - they've become too bloated and buggy. Bring back Chuck, John and Bruce to revitalize company mission.