Great place to work! - Program Manager Adobe Employee Review

4.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

You get good growth opportunities and their is good diversity of work and Adobe encourages people to move between roles and expand their skills. It takes lot of care of its employees and make sure they are decently compensated. Adobe gives you opportunity to learn and innovate things. I like the fact that each employee is respected for the skills he brings to his job. You have a great work life balance. You have times when one needs to stretch himself. You have easy access to senior management if you have any issues. I like the fact that Adobe has managers who act as mentors for their reportees.

Cons

At times, people feel Adobe is a laid back that doesn't know how to monetize its tools. PDF and Flash have the highest penetration in the PC world and even then we are not 10% the size of the Redmond company. We need to know how better to monetize our super cool products. Adobe office outside of US don't rub the same culture as that of Adobe US. You need to fly coach class even when you are travelling on US. It hurts to see people from India campuses flying in a coach class for 24-26 hours and then off to work the next day.

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5.0
Jun 24, 2026
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Pros

Best work/llife balance of the 5 large companies I have worked for, Adobe really cares for their employees. Free access to Adobe software. Lots of different offices to work from around the world. Prestigious products to work on. Future focused.

Cons

It's a corporate environment, so things can move pretty slow as you involve all the right people.

4.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
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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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