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4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(10,065 total reviews)
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87% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Adobe has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,065 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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1.0
Jan 11, 2021

Worst Team Ever

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Pros

The only good things are the benefits and compensation.

Cons

This is for the Austin, TX location. If you have co-workers that carried over from the acquisition, run now. They're too set on their ways and will not listen to your opinions. Even when there's outright inefficient and flaws in a process, they will not listen to what you have to suggest. When you make a mistake, you're thrown to the wolves. When they make a mistake, it's ok because everyone makes mistakes. They cover it up like no one made a mistake. As much as you try to include everyone and work as a team, the previous group does not want to be any part of it. It's there way or the highway. If you are looking at working for the Austin, TX department, STAY AWAY. You will be promised something that will never happen. You will leave feeling worthless with no advancement in your career. It's not worth your state of mind.

2.0
Feb 12, 2020
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Pros

Adobe is a fantastic brand well regarded within its customer base and offers well-known market-leading products (at least on the creative side of the business). The Sydney office is gorgeous, on the top floors of a large business complex overlooking Darling Harbour with handy facilities and great food options nearby. The company provides competitive compensation with great benefits such as paid private health insurance, gym subsidies, an attractive employee share purchase program, donation matching for charity and generous education subsidies. The company is fast growing and a great employer to have on your CV.

Cons

Behind the facade of a well-regarded brand and the “best places to work” awards lurks a dysfunctional Asia-Pacific marketing organisation whose incapacity to look beyond short-term results and some unfortunate hiring decisions has resulted in the erosion of its culture and a sharp increase in employee attrition. New leadership, coming from other large players in the IT industry with a reputation for cut-throat and backstabbing behaviour, has brought their fellow managers with them, along with the culture that goes with it. Roles and responsibilities for team members have been curtailed to very specific and measurable KPIs, turning the art and science of marketing within a company famed for its creativity into an exercise of bean counting. This siloing of responsibilities has also greatly reduced communication and collaboration within team members, further hitting morale within the organisation. In this environment, ruthless and politically-astute players gifted at “managing up” have been able to thrive, at the expense of managers fostering well-functioning and high-performing teams. Marketing leadership for the flagship creative business is located in far Singapore and seems only interested in furthering its own career advancement at the expense of anything (and anyone) else. The powers that be and HR seem to be blind (or indifferent) to the trail of destruction and serial resignations induced by these people.

5.0
Mar 1, 2018
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Pros

Relentless commitment to customer success. This is the core of most day to day decisions and the North Star for all activity. This makes it a place to be proud to work. Incredible products Amazing benefits and culture that draws incredibly talented individuals

Cons

Really not many to mention. Like any enterprise software company some of the processes can be cumbersome but certainly no worse than anywhere else.

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