Does Adobe pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Adobe employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Adobe. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Adobe?

82% of Adobe employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Adobe 4.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.2 for culture and values and 3.8 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Adobe?

Software Engineer (624) , Computer Scientist (314) , Senior Software Engineer (221) , Account Executive (140) , Member Of Technical Staff (140) , Research Intern (135) , Customer Success Manager (123) , Product Manager (120) , Intern (116) , Technical Consultant (116) , Account Manager (106) , Technical Support Engineer (96) , Program Manager (94) , Manager (90) , Senior Computer Scientist (87)

What are the pros of working at Adobe according to real employee reviews?

"Good work/life balance (the lights would always turn off at HQ around 5:30!)" ((in 1279 reviews)); "perks are amazing and people are great" ((in 795 reviews)); "good work culture and WLB" ((in 507 reviews)); "Good Salary and growth." ((in 315 reviews)); "Good stock options and pay" ((in 311 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Adobe according to real employee reviews?

"Middle managements has too much power and if you get a bad manager then you are out of luck" ((in 262 reviews)); "The annual layoffs mentioned by others are really more about shifting jobs offshore" ((in 92 reviews)); "No Work From Home Policy" ((in 72 reviews)); "Less growth opportunities into management from IC" ((in 63 reviews)); "Every couple of months our middle to upper management tell us that the company needs to take some kind of new direction." ((in 61 reviews))

What are employees saying about Adobe layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Adobe layoffs and their outlook for job security at Adobe in 2026.

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4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(10,081 total reviews)

Shantanu Narayen

87% approve of CEO

65% 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 10,081 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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2.0

Apr 16, 2020

Big gap between 'the promise' and reality

Sales

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Strong brand, great creative cloud solutions

Cons

Immaturity in digital experience cloud, lack of ability to execute strategic B2B

3.0

Dec 6, 2019

Avoid working in the marketing team

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great products, great customers and awesome city office location.

Cons

There is a toxic marketing leadership on both sides of the business. If you're not in the clique of ex- dell , you won't succeed. Also they'll find a way to 'manage you out' if they don't like you.

3.0

Sep 9, 2019

Not As Good As Advertised

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

* Good pay * Generous time-off policy * Commuter benefits * Company stock purchase * Company match for charitable giving

Cons

* Terrible work environment (musical-chairs, people crammed together with insufficient facilities, servers going down, poor wi-fi, expired software licenses etc). * The worst IT support I've ever seen * Socially irresponsible hiring policies (mostly overseas or green cards) * Mediocre 401k and Health Care * Embarrassingly bad company events/celebrations

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