Incapable middle management making work environment hostile! - Software Development Engineer 4 Adobe Employee Review

1.0
Apr 1, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are amazing perks and benefits, such as, wellness fund, free food, insurance coverage etc. Unfortunately, not able to find any pros for working environment and culture, especially, in India.

Cons

You’ll be assigned a task with an expectation of finishing it in a week and within a few days, you’ll see someone else is working in it without your knowledge. The new person will work on it for months and eventually fail (as his competences were different), then guess what, the leadership will blame you saying it was your responsibility to make it successful. The best part is you were not at all included is all the communications with this new person or not at included in any decisions, however, still the blame would be on you. In case of success, it’s the the manager, who are doing right things. Maturity level of middle managers is questionable and most have a set of favourites who are treated very well. The bad part is managers are showing wrong picture of their own team in front of the leadership, so, that, the leadership assume that, all the work is being taken care of because of the manager and this person is putting lot of effort. However, the fact is manager is making things worse.

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5.0
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Pros

Awesome manager, work life balance, great pay, good food

Cons

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4.0
Jun 16, 2026
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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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