Great workplace; culture is a bit corporate - Anonymous employee Adobe Employee Review

4.0
23 July 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very employee-centric company, great benefits, smart and talented people, culture is more corporate than others (even in San Francisco office).

Cons

Career advancement somewhat limited, a little bit of "not what you do, but how you do it" going on, as with most places you need to do your share of networking to move up. Managers always seem to be willing to pile on the work.

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Pros

- Awesome culture. I love going to work every day. People are really nice - exciting to be in the industry where a lot of innovation is happening - good work life balance - flexible RTO - two one-week shutdowns per year, unlimited PTO, global wellness days, great benefits

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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