Best company i've worked for - Product Manager Adobe Employee Review

5.0
Nov 12, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- The company has fantastic work/life balance and gives you a lot of autonomy. If you want to work from home, they're cool with it. If you want to work in the office, they're cool with it. - The company genuinely values employees, they want to retain people and will absolutely let you move teams/products/office locations/cities to keep your experience and knowledge in the company rather than watching you walk out. - Shantanu - Sr mgmt is good, they have experience in the space and have the people management chops to make working easier/enjoyable - They have a clear strategy & vision thats guiding their product investments and they communicate it regularly

Cons

- It's gets a little crunch-y leading up to product launches or big announcements, but thats kind of expected - Adobe is a company built on acquisitions, and while the business strategy is usually rock solid, sometimes the comms isn't. It's tough to get any insight about what other business units are doing unless leadership gives a super high level read out during an all hands or there's a specific task that requires collaboration. - Some decisions are made from a bit too far up the org chart, things can get a bit "top heavy" at times

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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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