Adobe Software Development Engineer 4 reviews

2.0

1% would recommend to a friend

(4 total reviews)
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Shantanu Narayen

9% approve of CEO

9% positive business outlook

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4 reviews
2.0
Mar 12, 2026
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Pros

- work-life balance and flexibility

Cons

- Business titles are all over the place. - Bureaucracy, favoritism, bias towards long tenured employees during decision making. - lot of ultra competitiveness driven out of insecurities causing frequent toxic flare ups and silos. - Many engineering teams still do not follow agile methodology properly, meaning no grooming, retros leaving less opportunities to share regular feedback or contribute effectively.

2.0
May 3, 2024

Bad genai team

Recommend
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Pros

Overall adobe culture is good.

Cons

Genai team is horrible due to micromanagement leadership

1.0
Apr 1, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

There are amazing perks and benefits, such as, wellness fund, free food, insurance coverage etc. Unfortunately, not able to find any pros for working environment and culture, especially, in India.

Cons

You’ll be assigned a task with an expectation of finishing it in a week and within a few days, you’ll see someone else is working in it without your knowledge. The new person will work on it for months and eventually fail (as his competences were different), then guess what, the leadership will blame you saying it was your responsibility to make it successful. The best part is you were not at all included is all the communications with this new person or not at included in any decisions, however, still the blame would be on you. In case of success, it’s the the manager, who are doing right things. Maturity level of middle managers is questionable and most have a set of favourites who are treated very well. The bad part is managers are showing wrong picture of their own team in front of the leadership, so, that, the leadership assume that, all the work is being taken care of because of the manager and this person is putting lot of effort. However, the fact is manager is making things worse.

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