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
Oct 2, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Pulling market capital out of years of unrealized gains, creative cloud is a marketing move for the ages. Great work lifestyle, 6 hour days, lots of vacation, over paid when threatening to quit... Great to be a lifer.

Cons

Anyone with an ounce of motivation has left this company. You will fall behind and become over paid, leaving you with little experience to move on. No growth products and little innovation. Command and control leadership. Rules and plans are handed down from above.

1.0
Apr 29, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits, good pay, excellent facilities, sabbatical. This is probably what kept a lot of bad employees around for so long.

Cons

Micro management, lack of team environment, negative work environment. Maybe I was an isolated case but I felt I was setup to fail at Adobe. I had the worst manager I have ever worked for in my career. Her and all her direct reports were more concerned about saving face rather than helping a new hire. I've taken criticism but this was to the point that it made the work environment toxic. Just my opinion but I saw this from other managers as well. They have no sense of what it means to be a leader. They think repeating scripting lines by HR makes them a good "manager".

1.0
Sep 22, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

You really learn a lot and since it is consulting, you get to work with some really smart and great people from other companies. You know what is going on in many different industries.

Cons

Although you learn a lot and meet great people at other companies, the management within Omniture is really bad. Promotions are given out based on friendship and politics to people that don't deserve them and aren't capable of leading or managing others. At least at Adobe Digital, employees are treated very unfairly, talked down to, reprimanded both in front of others and privately and you are only as good as you next mistake. You are given way too much work for one person to handle and then chastised when you make one mistake. And this is not just my opinion, the proof is in the pudding. In San Francisco, the Adobe Digital team has hired over a dozen people in the last 2 years with all but one quitting prior to reaching their year mark (and Adobe pays out nice money for reaching a year). Yet they still tell interviewees what a wonderful place to work it is. Meanwhile, the managers of these disgruntled employees keep getting promoted and praised because the consulting group is still very profitable based on the premium they get for carrying the Adobe name. They are profitable and that seems to be all the VPs care about. The incredible part is that upper management is aware of these issues because of countless HR complaints, surveys and the out-of-control turnover, but they'd rather turn over the entire work force than fire the people responsible for the mess. Do yourself a favor and away from Adobe Digital and possibly even Omniture altogether. Check out the Adobe software business itself. I hear they are much happier.

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