Adobe Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Work Life Balance is so good that after working for several years you will still feel that you joined recently

Cons

Some teams have so much work

Pros

Adobe has a great ethical culture of delivering mind blowing products while preserving a great balance of life and work. This derives from the founders, Chuck and John, and has been preserved because of their active involvement on the Board and because so many key contributors to this culture Adobe have stayed and not chased other opportunities. . The brand is very powerful worldwide and the pay and benefits are outstanding.

Cons

It is inevitable that a culture that does such a great job of preserving work-life balance will have pockets of operations where the pressure to deliver is very intense (sales, radical updates to products such as making it all cloud based). Also, the Omniture acquisition brought in a lot of people who were in the mold of their former CEO Josh James who was selfish and self-promoting and the antithesis of Chuck and John. They are very political and a continuing risk to Adobe's culture.

Pros

Global competitive products, lots of products - hence teams, good benefits for employees, great motivation at work, great work life balance.

Cons

The team I was assigned actually did a lot of work - A LOT - and hence the tag of a good work life balance may vary from team to team.

Pros

For a large software company, this is a great place to work. The benefits package is pretty good and their stock options are great. Work life balance is not that great as you may end up working a lot of late nights and weekend.

Cons

The only way to get promoted is if someone leaves a position. The base salaries are not really competitive.

Pros

Great people! Those that work hard and very reliable and there is a great work/life balance at Adobe.

Cons

They have made bad hiring choices and don't lay off, but promote. They are shy to hire new people as a result.

Pros

Great work life balance and I enjoy working with everyone I've had a chance to work with. All kinds of benefits - great medical, good salary, work from home, sabbatical, fitness reimbursement, 3-6 months mat leave, 2 weeks of shutdown plus lots of vacation days, adoption bennies, and more. Working hard is not difficult when you get compensated appropriately.

Cons

Layoffs every year are a big bummer and not knowing if your product will be around another year or what new direction the company is going to take is nerve racking and counterproductive. Supposedly the yearly layoffs are supposed to stop (they didn't do it this year so let's hope it stays that way). Finding your way around Adobe and figuring out how to get things done around all the red tape and slow movement is half the battle. The Omniture acquisition was a downer culturally for both sides - still not fixed.

Pros

- Good work life balance for most positions with at least 2 full weeks of company shutdowns per year - Great pay and benefits

Cons

- Depending on organization, little career growth opportunities with lots of outside hires - Annual+ reorganizations that are incredibly counter-productive

Pros

- Great benefits - Awesome new-grad hire network, tons of resources for new-grad hires - The Design org is top notch, everything a large company should be doing to facilitate human-centered experiences. - Good work/life balance (the lights would always turn off at HQ around 5:30!) - As a designer, you are so close to the tools that you use.

Cons

- I think this happens at a lot of big companies, but you sometimes feel like a cog in the wheel. - Acquisitions are a heavy strategy for Adobe, so sometimes you end up trying to tie solutions together rather than ideating completely new solutions. - Navigating a highly matrixed, political system is sometimes draining. Can feel like you spend way more time in meetings than designing.

Pros

There is nothing like what this organization has to offer. The perks and the benefits that Adobe has to offer is at par from others. They value the Human relationship and also your personal life. Work life balance is well maintained and they make sure that you are in good hands. Management is amazing and listens to you at every step.

Cons

No Such Con that I could identify