Adobe reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(10,061 total reviews)
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86% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Adobe has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,061 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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3.0
Nov 30, 2013

Layoffs every November.

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Pros

It's a good place to work. They're innovative and they show willingness to take big risks, most of which have paid off since 2009.

Cons

If you love to update your resume and begin looking for jobs every October, and you love being terrified that your position will be eliminated without explanation even if you're an exemplary employee, then Adobe is the place for you! Major restructuring happens in early- to mid-November every year, and about 5-10% of the workforce is laid off. Rather than attempting to find new positions for good employees, they just throw out the good and the bad across the whole company. If someone high up doesn't like you, you're in trouble, no matter how much value you've created for the company. (Note: I have not been laid off, but enough of my colleagues have been that I feel justified in writing this. If management just cut the dead wood, that would be fine--but people with consistently high performance marks are tossed off without a care, and others who create no value are kept around long past the years that they should have been let go.)

1.0
Mar 10, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits & Stocks! Location - for emeryville office.

Cons

The Adobe Emeryville offfice - Its actually not a true Adobe office. Its a tubemogul company which is basically a adtech company acquired by Adobe later. The Ad cloud of Adobe is not doing well and hence there's not much focus on quality or any new exciting initiatives & the growth rate is literally slowing down. Better beware of this company & do not get fooled by the name Adobe. I got 3 offers(Adobe, another big fortune 500 tech and a startup) & I chose this offer mainly fooled by the brand Adobe, location + benefits & stocks. But, after couple of months joining I really repented a lot for making the decision as the work or the growth of adtech portfolio of Adobe is literally slowing down and even their technology stack is not so exciting to work or learn. Their office space sucks and its a damn old building in emeryville and not like a corporate atmosphere. If you have multiple offers, better stay away from this Adobe Emeryville office(Adobe Ad cloud), atleast for the sake of your good. I'm currently out of them and my experience with them was I just wasted my 1 year of my career with them without learning anything new or exciting to my interest.

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