Great benefits and friendly culture. But the company faces tough future. - Senior Product Manager Adobe Employee Review

4.0
13 Jan 2009
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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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5.0
8 Jun 2026
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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.

4.0
8 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

great work life balance. work with lots of friendly and smart people

Cons

company is struggling a little bit facing AI technologies

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