Nice place, shame about the quiet culture and bad apples that ruin it. A pity! - Technical Specialist Adobe Employee Review

3.0
Aug 30, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Reasonably nice pay, decent offices with free drinks. Mostly really nice people, and some nice RSU options and employee stock programs.

Cons

Well - what can I say? A lot of late nights, a fair amount of workplace harassment (“company old timers” waiting until you’re on the train home before rejecting yet another code review without showing you how the company likes things done - missed three deadlines because of this!). This was basically bullying and I realised quickly that there was no appetite to tackle it, and so I had to just get on with it and make plans to get out ASAP. Lots of people looking very tired and too frightened to leave or speak up about the frankly awful culture. What a pity. So many really nice nice people too, who I really liked - pretty much spoiled by one or two very very bad apples.

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