Best work life balance with almost zero growth prospects - Associate Technical Consultant Adobe Employee Review

2.0
Feb 8, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

1. Adobe is a big brand and offers the best work life balance. 2. Experienced, helpful and extremely friendly senior management 3. Free Meals 4. Free Cabs 5. Free Gym facility 6. Unlike most MNCs, the organization is extremely flat and you can communicate with the senior management without hurting anyone's ego.

Cons

1. Double standards while hiring employees. People with the exactly same skill set and experience are offered different pay packages. I would highly recommend negotiating as hard as you can with the HR execs. The human resource department have no set standards and hence you must aim high and sell yourself for as much as you can. I know it seems bizarre that an organization like Adobe would have no defined pay standards but I have been told that mine is not the only case. 2. Don't even think about getting a good appraisal. The only good money you can make is when you are hired. Therefore, I would again insist to negotiate as hard as you can when you are being hired. 3. Discuss the job profile in details (Although I did that and the role eventually turned out to be quite different to the one I was hired for, which is sad) but still detailed discussions from the very beginning helps you in setting the right expectations rather than getting disappointed later.

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Cons

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Pros

* Refreshing focus on employee wellness * Brilliant colleagues * Compelling problems on interesting tools * Good work/life balance culture... generally (see cons) I've been at a few big tech companies and Adobe is one of my favorites. I feel empowered to make impactful changes here, I'm constantly stretching myself in fun ways, and the products we make are incredible. Product and engineering have big dreams, and all the resources we need to realize them.

Cons

* Big time crunch culture around arbitrary goals By far my biggest disappointment has been just how hard product pushes on big projects with arbitrary deadlines and difficult scope. It turns into cutting corners and delivering sub-par experiences even though we absolutely have the talent and capability to make some exceptional things if we just let the dang thing bake a few more months. I'd be more impressed with the tight clip if the goals were reasonable for good business reasons, but as far as I can tell the reason usually boils down to "some high-level manager wanted X and thought Y sounded like a good target date". * Comp growth leaves something to be desired. Raises feel pretty flat, though it's not the worst thing since stock rewards can be pretty good as appropriate for performance. Career progression is pretty good here too - I just find it odd how stale the base pay increases are year to year.

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