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Adobe is one of the most creative companies in the world

Engineering Manager
Former Employee
Worked at Adobe for 20 years
December 11, 2014
San Jose, California
4.0
RecommendsNeutral Outlook
Pros

Adobe is filled with super creative people wanting to make the world a better place by helping people take what they imagine and bring it out visually, whether that's with artwork, photography, or data. They encourage the heart and treat everyone very well. You will love your colleagues. They are innovating in their human resources areas with their ongoing "Check-In" process, and they really care about leadership development.

Cons

Adobe is a multi-headed beast now.

They have so many markets and products that they serve. They serve very few of them really, really well.

They're no longer excellent at any one thing, but just very good at a number of things.

The tedious yearly budgeting process, both for execution and for resource management, is ripe to be blown up and new approaches considered.

Tremendously bright VPs and middle managers are reduced to blubbering idiots that can only pass their upper executive's demands downward, causing huge morale and dissatisfaction in the employees as they are hamstrung by half-baked, un-customer-focused "corporate" mandates.

Advice to Management

The board and the executive team need to fire themselves and bring in people who are already experienced in the new world where the company needs to go. They should pull the company toward it instead of pushing the large, amorphous blob of efforts forward in a haphazard fashion.

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