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      4.1

      82% would recommend to a friend

      (10,107 total reviews)
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      Shantanu Narayen

      86% approve of CEO

      63% positive business outlook

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      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      Adobe has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,107 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
      Dec 4, 2009

      Used to be a great place to work

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      - Good benefit - Many opportunities to learn (free training courses, seminars, etc) - Private offices for all regular employees (SJ only) - Bonuses, shipping gifts if you are in a profitable product team

      Cons

      - More and more projects being moved overseas (meaning poor job security and more early morning and late night meetings) - Less or no career opportunities - Poor communication from upper management - Frequent changes in company/product direction

      4.0
      Jan 23, 2009

      Which Adobe are you looking for? The new or the old?

      Senior computer scientist
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      Pros

      Adobe (the formerly-Macromedia part, anyway) is taking the lead in rich client development. They are taking the mindshare away from Java on the client, which means more developers use what you work on, which is a good place to be. Aside from working on cool technology that actually gets used, you don't have to give up your life to do it. I feel my management is very flexible about letting me work from home as needed and sets realistic scheduling expectations. I'm also getting paid enough of a base salary to live in the SF Bay Area and the profit sharing is a nice bonus as well.

      Cons

      Some parts of the company are getting long in the tooth and jealous of the new kids on the block. There are two Adobe's -- the original Adobe that developed all of those fonts, PostScript, Acrobat, and Photoshop, and then there's the Adobe that used to be Macromedia. The original Adobe has a very corporate feel and the new Adobe has more of a free-wheeling, agile feel. That could be because it's younger.

      5.0
      Jun 8, 2026

      Awesome culture, leadership has been lacking recently

      Director
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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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