Lots of positive things but ultimately, lots of negative things. - Technical Writer Adobe Employee Review

1.0
Jun 17, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits. Cool office. Booming company.

Cons

They brought me on as a Jr Technical Writer. They said they would train me and grant me some RSUs that vest in 4 years to convince me into making a long term commitment. Great! I was initially on a centralized doc team full of writers and a manager *(the guy who hired me) and it was good. 2 years in, they decentralized us and all the writers were split up and put under product organizations. Okay cool. The product manager who became my new manager was a nice guy and a great product manager but had ZERO CLUE how to manage a writer and was mostly nonexistent and just cared that my job was being completed, which it was. This was because he had no idea what my daily duties entailed. Both my first manager of 2 years and my 2nd manager had nothing but top reviews and ratings to give me. Then, the product I was working on got canceled and shipped to India. What did they do to the Jr Writer which they brought on, trained, and gave RSUs to convince him into making a long term commitment? They moved me to a new product, right? No, they just laid me off. Great manager reviews, total loyalty and commitment to Adobe, multiple product knowledge of several products across the cloud, and nope.... they just laid me off. A couple of my coworkers even complained up the ladder at how it was handled. But nothing changed. I was picked up by Microsoft a month later, but I still find how Adobe handled the situation very unsettling and unprofessional. They instilled a sense of commitment and loyalty into you... and so I ignored several other opportunities that knocked on my door--only to realize that was a mistake because Adobe didn't care about the commitment and loyalty they squeezed out of me.

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