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Adobe Brand

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• Good products
• Vacations
• Good technology

The Magento team is extremely unethical and toxic. They hire outside talent to help them, but they don't have the ability to listen to new ideas and proven approaches from the industry.

Leadership is unethical, plays dirty politics, breaks promises, lies frequently, and plays favoritism due to various biases. I've seen people there leading engineering teams who have never coded in their lives, cannot understand complex design discussions and problems, but still played their way to higher ranks. It doesn't matter what you know and can do; it matters who you play with better.

They don't realize that these non-technical, politically correct people are easily replaceable, but not hard-working engineers with proven industry experience.

I have seen more than a few people leave under extreme depression due to all these politics and the toxic culture. The sad part is that even after escalations to higher management by multiple people, they didn't do much. If someone is looking for growth within the company, instead of helping, they are cutting people who are not 100% agreeing with their approach. They need yes-men without the ability to challenge the status quo.

Even though they have had a failed strategy for many years now within Magento, they are truly working like an organized gang of people who know each other previously. Anyone else coming from outside with high potential is seen as a threat to their insecure minds.

Review their failed strategy. Why can't they hire, listen to, and sustain people from outside well?

Investigate why they insist some qualified people look outside, and then promote extremely non-technical people to engineering leadership positions.

Stop these people from promoting this toxic and unethical culture. It actually destroys morale and mental health, and is bad for the Adobe brand.