Bias Bias and Just Bias - Anonymous employee Adobe Employee Review

1.0
Mar 26, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are good. Learning was good

Cons

1. My manager and a team member were in same previous company before coming to Adobe. Ideally this should not be allowed as I see lot of bias due to this previous company relationship. 2. For a small implementation, my manager has burnt lot of Adobe's money and the return is zero. ROI is almost negligible for these projects and cost to maintain this new product is heavy. 3. Metrics for program/project success and failure was never done. 4. Critical feature for product launch which was timebound was given to me and once product launch was done , I was moved out of product. 5. Adobe has education benefits but my manager does not know about them and does not approve of me availing such benefits 6. Manager does not know anything. Always need help from others especially from team member from previous employment

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