Adobe reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(10,082 total reviews)
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87% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Adobe has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,082 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Dec 16, 2015

The worst culture ever

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The money, the perception that the company name gives you in the job market when you decide you're done with this nonsense.

Cons

The culture is the worst I have seen in my professional career. The company is mostly run by white males who give lip service to diversity but have zero interest in it. There is a huge amount of narcissism and a bias towards people who talk nonstop about how great the company is and brown nose. It's like the worst frat you've ever seen. Most salespeople have never used the products they are selling. They have their sales scripts but that's it. You are expected to attend meetings and engage in typical workaholic behaviors if you want to go anywhere or save your job. They literally openly threaten firing during conferences and meetings if you do not praticipate to their liking. I have spoken to a number of people who have missed family events years in a row or missed milestones like their child walking for the first time because they are expected to attend grueling meetings regardless. It is very clear that these people must give total control of their homelife to their spouse or partner, otherwise their home would be in shambles. Expect poor to no training or mentorship. When you struggle, you will be blamed. You'll be pointed to the web with countless trainings that will teach you zero valuable skills. Your mentor will end up being someone who is way too busy trying to be a superstar suck up to actually mentor you. When you fail you'll be labeled as "just not adobe material." The processes are a bureaucratic nightmare that would make George Orwell say "really? That seems over the top." Expect that any process will require you to call or interact with offshore resources in India who struggle to communicate and have zero understanding of the process beyond their link in the chain. It is without question the least empathic work environment I have ever seen. God forbid you bring up anything unpleasant like a death in the family or anything similar as just small talk. The employee will gloss over it and talk about how "excited" they are about the "opportunities" Adobe has in the market. That is unless they want to sell you something and then they will act like they care until the deal is done.

1.0
Sep 17, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Paycheck, easy to be the best

Cons

A c-level individual from a payments fraud vendor - Forter, Adobe is using, both sexually harassed me and tried making me wire them a large sum of my personal money for a fake business they wanted me to "invest in". I reported this to Adobe's HR and Forter's CEO, with substantial proof. I was told “there’s nothing they can do, as those people don’t work here” by Adobe's HR. Forter's CEO, seemed to think the behavior was perfectly acceptable. I also provided substantial proof this vendor cheated on the POC to get into Adobe and other businesses, which I was at. They cheated to beat out other vendors. Again crickets. Think twice before working at a company with these kind of values, it not worth being abused by their vendors.

2.0
Mar 16, 2017

Inside Sales Morale

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I love the colleagues I work with, it's more to do with management. I love the building and the benefits.

Cons

- They have empty promises - Upper management doesn't care about you - Management doesn't listen to the problems and only create more excuses - They have unrealistic quotas, with high attainment thresholds for ANY compensation - You are competing internally for accounts - They say they will fix the problem and they never do Honestly Adobe use to be the place to work, but since recent changes it's a place to leave, but management has made calls to other companies to prevent them from recruiting the employees.

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