Trying to be a follower not leading the industry with poor management direction - Quality Engineer Adobe Employee Review

2.0
11 Apr 2012
Recommend
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Pros

- Paying back to the community, generous donations to homeless, poor children - Different clubs to join - Free gym, locker/shower room - Mother's room - Great internal training

Cons

- Poor direction in management - lack of creative thinking, now it's all about making $$$ without definite plan - Laying off hundreds of employees without any bright plan and lying to the public - Killing and shipping all GREAT products to India which will only maintain the product not creating new ideas

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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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