Great company, with poor local leadership - Cloud Engineer Adobe Employee Review

3.0
27 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Fantastic product and company vision - Generally strong culture and flexible working conditions - A lot of great people - Autonomous & proactive work ethic (unless in sales where you will be micromanaged)

Cons

- Local (AU/NZ) leadership is weak - agree that there are a lot of "yes men" who are just long standing sales guys, as per previous posts - An ever increasing amount of middle management who seem to do a lot of "strategy planning" but with no noticeable improvement for employees or customers. It seems like they spin a lot of plates to suit their own agendas. Plan, re-plan, re-plan... - Senior management have recently gone to the extent of moving themselves to a totally separate floor which completely removes them from the general workforce. Not exactly promoting an "open door policy". - Recent bad hires and resignations within sales management have completely turned the sales org haywire. - Repeatedly poor sales (Account Exec) hires has lead to a stressful culture - AU/NZ is a small operation and has little opportunity for major growth (in terms of headcount). Bear this in mind when considering career opportunities as your next step would likely be abroad (APAC or US), unless you play the game well and find yourself in a self-made middle management role as discussed above.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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