Mixed WLB, Lot of politics, okayish experience (Noida) - Software Engineer Adobe Employee Review

3.0
May 12, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Sometimes the work can be good and interesting, depending on your team. 2. Benefits like insurance, hybrid, wellness reimbursements (which are pretty standard anyways, other companies have better). 3. Relatively better job security. 4. Its a big brand and can give you stable life, except for teams where WLB is extremely bad.

Cons

1. Lot of bootlicking culture. Sometimes I get choked while seeing how much bootlicking people do here right up to the senior management. Everybody is licking their bosses and it has became a standard expectation here. 2. People who do above becomes manager's favorite. All they need to do is bare minimum work and keep shouting how much they have done. 3. Only those folks get bonuses, hikes who are the loudest in describing what they are doing, bootlicks their manager, and care about making manager happy instead of customers. 4. Altruists can be shocked at how much backbitching , backstabbing goes on here in the team. You cannot trust anyone. People are so double-faced that you will feel constant toxicity. 5. You can face terrible WLB occassionally.

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Pros

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Cons

- Leadership lost its way. Missed huge opportunities in markets served by Canva and GenAI. Took the wrong bet on commercially safe models, missing out on huge opportunities that were captured by competing GenAI models. No clear strategy or vision from management about how to get back in track. Our products are losing market share every day and management seems to be lime deer in headlights, unsure what to do - Watching stock price deflating nearly every day is disheartening - Decision making is very slow. Takes ages to get things approved. - C-suite is mostly over 50 and often seem out of touch with latest AI and tech trends. Uphill battle sometimes to get them to see urgent opportunities that need to be acted on immediately - Adobe failed to organically develop major products in the last 20 years. Major recent ones; Firefly and Express; have not been successful.

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