Growth:
If you are not in sales; let's say in consulting, then I am afraid, you are nothing more than a resource who simply exists to drive revenue. This approach is openly communicated by the management. Their expectation is for consultants to get into long term engagements and look to extend by any means possible to drive revenue. This is expectation is regardless of a consultant's experience, skills and ambitions or at what level they were brought in to do the job in the first place. Basically, if you are on a project, forget about growth. Stay put, make money and stop wanting things!
If you are in consulting then there is no career path; especially if you come in at a pretty senior level to begin with. On the contrary, life is totally different for the sales organisation. Net pay rises simply do not exist in consulting unless you are being promoted from a junior level to senior.
Training:
There is a training budget but in reality, nobody utilises this. All requests for training either internal or external will be met with "maybe we can organise an internal enablement session within the team" or simply a "no". Within Adobe, there is an internal multi-solution architect training programme which most senior consultants will naturally aspire to. This is an intensive programme and management expectation is that this is done totally off the back of your own time. Basically, for six months you will have no weekends or evenings. At the end of it, there is no official title change, effective pay rise, a real certificate. You guessed it, the only difference is that you bring in more revenue for the company.
Management:
There is no transparency in decision making by the management. It's a blackbox! Check-in and feedback process is a complete farce and is a compliance pretence. There is a pseudo management structure which distances the real management tier even further. Seriously good managers/leads are just a handful. A recent re-organisation of the team to make them more cross functional has hindered; not helped.
Talent team:
The recruitment team in the UK is the worst I have seen in my career so far. They are ineffective, inefficient and incapable. Adobe's on-boarding process also requires huge amount of improvement to bring it in line with some of the other big organisations.
