A little IBM - Technical Architect Adobe Employee Review

3.0
Jun 14, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great and highly recognizable brand, good products everyone will ask you about. Treats employees and customers consistently and predictably. Adobe is a stable, well entrenched business with a great market opportunity to extend its the reach. Generous profit sharing for rank-and-file employees.

Cons

Too set in its ways, slow moving, lacks excitement. Unwilling to reinvent itself and slow in recognizing and investing in strategic initiatives. Company name difficult to pronounce; it's not much fun working at a place called "Adob". Employees get great product discounts but fulfillment takes forever. I miss "trophy" product boxes we used to give away to good performing contractors and important visitor; this is no longer allowed or supporte. Stock and stock option awards are measly.

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Cons

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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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