Adobe reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(10,133 total reviews)
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86% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Adobe has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,133 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Adobe employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Nov 2, 2013

Good company to work for, but not without some serious issues

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Pros

Very competitive pay structures, stock grants for high performing employees, pretty good corporate culture, reasonable efforts to be a good corporate citizen.

Cons

A lot of work is spread across a lot of geographies. For managers and many employees this results in horrible work/life balance due to late evening/early-morning meetings and a lot of unnecessary travel. "Netflix-style" vacation policy can easily lead to having zero vacation if you aren't conscientious about taking your vacation. Years of shifting corporate strategies leads to lots of mis-steps and half-efforts which then result in layoffs that are still quite frequent. If you are a strong performer and are relatively attuned to corporate politics and you work in San Francisco, San Jose or Noida, you can do quite well there, but if you are in one of the many satellite offices or get stuck onto a doomed project, you are continually in fear of the fall layoffs as the company closes up projects in advance of the start of the fiscal year.

3.0
Nov 1, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Some product managers and directors are really inspiring and do know their stuff- a pleasure to work with

Cons

Benefits and other perks (such as education, courses, etc) are only 'offered' to a few, with no connection to performance. For the ones who don't receive it, it begs the question: why? And how?

2.0
Oct 30, 2013
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Pros

Interesting, diverse product line offers a choice of career paths. Offices in a wide variety of geographical locations gives the opportunity to work with people from many cultures.

Cons

Lots of thrashing of priorities and a general lack of management direction. The overall culture has suffered since Chuck and John retired.

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