Adobe reviews

After the Macromedia acquisition all of sound it felt like we were working at a really big company. It was much slower moving and harder to get things done. Seems like we just keep acquiring companies since they can build things quicker than it would take to do within Adobe. We have had problems communicating to the development community the whole Flex story. There are certain people who just plug along and don't contribute much, while other good people were let go as part of the yearly layoffs. They reduced employee benefits e.g. ability to roll over PTO time from one year to the next eliminated profit sharing, instituted bonuses (at your managers discretion), and are now doing a forced week off each year, they tried to position this as if it was a better deal but no one bought that.

Farce of appraisal, feedback process, Middle management has free hand most of the time Not working on weekend can be considered factor in performance appraisal that can even result in exit. 10-15% people forced to exit after every appraisal (while people at other location get retrenched in Layoffs with good severance package)