My biggest complaint is I was hired for a job that did not exist - Anonymous employee Adobe Employee Review

2.0
27 Jan 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

No doubt that Adobe is a great company with good salaries, amazing products and lots of benefits and perks. The issue is to be found in the fact that 80% of the Berlin office works for Adobe Stock, Adobe's image bank.

Cons

There is no real leadership (vision and inspiration), only management. The culture is basically "do as you are told". Suggestions and recommendations by employees are most of the time ignored, the teams have no processes in place for anything. The ridiculous recruitment process takes months and results in employees getting disheartened by repetitive and meaningless tasks. The job I applied to has nothing to do with the "tasks" I have to perform on a daily basis. Firings are highly political and have very little to do with talent or quality of contribution. They'll fire swaths of people and no one will know why.

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