Don't join if you respect yourself - Solutions Architect Adobe Employee Review

1.0
1 Feb 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You can get branded workwear just like at any fastfood or delivery service.

Cons

At first you'll be in awe if you are an intern or never worked at a big company but that fades away quickly. You'll have to spend at least half of your time and resources to advocate for your importance. This is nonsense, but that's how it works at Adobe if you want to make a career, you don't actually need to work, just talk louder and it will be appreciated and rewarded with 7 figures. If you are a talented tech introvert, such people will ride you to the burnout and then replace you with fresh blood. At Adobe we: - ask employees for complete dedication and then throw them away - tell them it was a tough year and pocket their rewards - rig the bought surveys about being #1 place to work - respect slackers that talk a lot and disdain people that actually get the work done So if you are coming for experience you'd better go elsewhere. Adobe is not FAANG and not even close to that. This company has a stigma of tech laggard and it will be really hard to find a good job after it in tech domain.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
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Recommend
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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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