Great salary, benefits, quality of life. Poor management, security and quality of work - Anonymous employee Adobe Employee Review

4.0
Feb 11, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great benefits, smart people. Great salary, great workplaces (SF or San Jose). Great food. Good addition of new talent via smart acquisitions in new spaces.

Cons

Huge shifts in management. Near-yearly Fall layoffs (and nearly impossible to fire someone otherwise). Huge company that's essentially run by the lawyers and bureaucrats. Very hard to make a decision, and hard to make one stick. False "consensus" culture that's really about doing what higher managers decide. People afraid to make decisions. Older profitable (and user-loved) desktop software almost entirely moved to India now (with very little improvements scheduled), with talented US engineers shuffling between new mobile/tablet projects that get killed off quickly. Company still identified with the older creative products, but there's little or no investment in those: it's all about the new marketing acquisitions.

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5.0
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Pros

Nice mentors and supportive environment

Cons

Return offers depend on the headcount and could be difficult for research interns

4.0
Jun 16, 2026
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Pros

* Refreshing focus on employee wellness * Brilliant colleagues * Compelling problems on interesting tools * Good work/life balance culture... generally (see cons) I've been at a few big tech companies and Adobe is one of my favorites. I feel empowered to make impactful changes here, I'm constantly stretching myself in fun ways, and the products we make are incredible. Product and engineering have big dreams, and all the resources we need to realize them.

Cons

* Big time crunch culture around arbitrary goals By far my biggest disappointment has been just how hard product pushes on big projects with arbitrary deadlines and difficult scope. It turns into cutting corners and delivering sub-par experiences even though we absolutely have the talent and capability to make some exceptional things if we just let the dang thing bake a few more months. I'd be more impressed with the tight clip if the goals were reasonable for good business reasons, but as far as I can tell the reason usually boils down to "some high-level manager wanted X and thought Y sounded like a good target date". * Comp growth leaves something to be desired. Raises feel pretty flat, though it's not the worst thing since stock rewards can be pretty good as appropriate for performance. Career progression is pretty good here too - I just find it odd how stale the base pay increases are year to year.

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