Understand your role and job description before joining - Cloud Deployment Engineer Adobe Employee Review

1.0
Aug 10, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Overall as an organisation its above average. Great employee benefits. Work life balance is usually good. You colleagues will provide guidance for your day-to-day regular tasks.

Cons

1. Your overall experience depends on the team and business segment. 2. I DONOT recommend the position of Cloud Deployment Engineer in AMS in particular for the following reasons: i. Repetitive tasks. ii. On the job learning opportunities are less unless you're in specialisation track - monitoring, splunk, servicenow. iii. Its a support and operations job. iv. Due to a shift in automation in AEM offering through cloud-as-a-service model, the job role of CDE will not exist in near future. At best you will be retained into some specialisation track. v. The growth is very poor. vi. The mid-level management is hostile. E.g. you might not believe this - if your laptop stops working for some reason then you're responsible to sort it out with IT ASAP. You'll be held responsible for any delay. Managers will dump their frustration on you like its your fault. vii. You can be targeted and indirectly forced into certain specialisation track and in projects for which no documentation exists. A strict timeline will be imposed during which you'll need to learn everything and start contributing to the projects in addition to your already existing regular workloads. Even if its unrealistic and for some reason you fail to deliver, you'll be put on PIP without appraisals. You'll not be allowed to provide any justification from your side. HR will be informed but he/she will not reach out to you to listen to your side of the story. 3. KTs will be very minimal. Depending on the person responsible for giving KT to you will schedule meetings for tracking purpose and ask you if you have any doubts while you're learning on your own capacity. 4. The threat of retaliation still remains real at an individual level and in management level as well even after assurances from the CEO on no retaliation policy. So please do consider the above points before you accept the offer.

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Pros

* Refreshing focus on employee wellness * Brilliant colleagues * Compelling problems on interesting tools * Good work/life balance culture... generally (see cons) I've been at a few big tech companies and Adobe is one of my favorites. I feel empowered to make impactful changes here, I'm constantly stretching myself in fun ways, and the products we make are incredible. Product and engineering have big dreams, and all the resources we need to realize them.

Cons

* Big time crunch culture around arbitrary goals By far my biggest disappointment has been just how hard product pushes on big projects with arbitrary deadlines and difficult scope. It turns into cutting corners and delivering sub-par experiences even though we absolutely have the talent and capability to make some exceptional things if we just let the dang thing bake a few more months. I'd be more impressed with the tight clip if the goals were reasonable for good business reasons, but as far as I can tell the reason usually boils down to "some high-level manager wanted X and thought Y sounded like a good target date". * Comp growth leaves something to be desired. Raises feel pretty flat, though it's not the worst thing since stock rewards can be pretty good as appropriate for performance. Career progression is pretty good here too - I just find it odd how stale the base pay increases are year to year.

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