Poor culture and management - Computer Scientist Adobe Employee Review

1.0
1 Feb 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Brand value is good, location is good. Adobe used to hire good people. Although some idiots also joined due to acquisitions. But, now Adobe is desperately looking for people but not paying attention to existing talent.

Cons

Managers lack any skills. Unfair practices by managers. Senior management does not care. Old employees who are celebrating their honeymoon in Adobe have good relationships with managers. They get scare of their position when somebody intelligent employee try to work. They feel sense of insecurity. Instead of enhancing their skills they and managers indulge in dirty politics. Work environment has turned suffocating recently.

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Cons

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Pros

- Awesome culture. I love going to work every day. People are really nice - exciting to be in the industry where a lot of innovation is happening - good work life balance - flexible RTO - two one-week shutdowns per year, unlimited PTO, global wellness days, great benefits

Cons

- Leadership lost its way. Missed huge opportunities in markets served by Canva and GenAI. Took the wrong bet on commercially safe models, missing out on huge opportunities that were captured by competing GenAI models. No clear strategy or vision from management about how to get back in track. Our products are losing market share every day and management seems to be lime deer in headlights, unsure what to do - Watching stock price deflating nearly every day is disheartening - Decision making is very slow. Takes ages to get things approved. - C-suite is mostly over 50 and often seem out of touch with latest AI and tech trends. Uphill battle sometimes to get them to see urgent opportunities that need to be acted on immediately - Adobe failed to organically develop major products in the last 20 years. Major recent ones; Firefly and Express; have not been successful.

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