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      4.1

      82% would recommend to a friend

      (10,110 total reviews)
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      Shantanu Narayen

      86% approve of CEO

      63% positive business outlook

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      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      Adobe has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,110 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Adobe employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      3.0
      Feb 20, 2009

      Adobe: a good company, could be great

      Lead software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Work environment(gym tt, nice field, flexible work hours), nice technical people, great facilities, encouraged to file patents, top 10% salary, great food. Good work life balance. Cutting edge technology

      Cons

      Internal politics, treating QA as second citizens. Poor middle management. Poor leadership quality in middle management. Trying to grab spotlight for things that you even did not do yourself. Not much importance to values. It you want to grow fast, and work with the management on goals of your own, for a QA it does not seem possible. Have patience and let them decide, when they wanna promote you. Yo u cannot take charge of your career on your own.

      5.0
      Jan 26, 2009

      I don't know

      Member of technical staff ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      We work on amazing products. My friends love sharing the employee discount. Almost everyone I meet instantly recognizes what it is I work on. The people we work with are intelligent, which makes a big difference when you have to work with them day in and out. It is a big, recognizable software company that you can be proud to be a part of, while still smaller than the other big software players.

      Cons

      They only have a few offices, so relocating and keeping your job would be difficult. Everyone I know uses my as their personal sound board for every complaint about Photoshop, Flash, Acrobat, Updater, etc.

      4.0
      Jan 13, 2009

      Great benefits and friendly culture. But the company faces tough future.

      Senior product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Adobe has a set of great product and talent people. You have a solid base to build upon. The culture is friendly and encourages employee to have a good work/life balance. Productivity is the focus not the face-to-face hours. Benefits are good and you can enjoy low employee price of Adobe's premium products, such as creative suites, etc. San Jose office is a green building. The facility is very good. There are many video conference rooms available for you to communicate with teams across the global. Also in the San Jose office, you can access to an in-house Gym with many good equipments.

      Cons

      There are several downsides here. First, the core business is largely built upon traditional consumer shrink-wrapped software business model. The model is pretty much dead, threaten by free software, open source, subscription, Saas, etc. The company has not found a new growth area yet. Its enterprise product has not found a market segment after four years trying to create one. Its Saas offering faces many other players which entered this market much earlier than Adobe. Its mobile business had a touch year and future yet to be seen. Secondly, the culture emphasizes on collaboration just too much. You can easily have all day meeting without having made any decision.

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