If this is one of your early companies, you get to learn to do things independently. You can have fun at work, but that depends on the team too.
Decreasing quality of people. As the number of people is increasing, more and more levels are being created in the hierarchy. Transparency is lost. Increasing micromanagement and decrease in actual managerial skills. The workplace is now ridden with dirty politics. The newly created leads are confused. They are still individual contributors but they behave as managers (micro-managers). As a result, there is a lack of trust on both ends. And then there is unjustifiable favoritism. And now Adobe has even lost its position as a high paymaster. It is no more a dream company!
You don't need unnecessary levels in hierarchy. Managers and leads who just order their juniors and don't do anything themselves, yet take all the credit for their subordinates' hard work – such people are driving the good people away from the company. They are not assets, but liabilities to the company. You should get rid of such people. You need to restore Adobe's old structure.
I recently completed (and flunked) a full interview sequence for the Senior Mac/iOS C++ Engineer position on the Adobe Application Platform (Torque Native) team. I thought it might be useful to recap the experience for the next interview candidate.
I was approached by an in-house recruiter through my LinkedIn profile. The recruiter sent me a summary job description that piqued my interest. I also checked out Adobe's benefits, and they're roughly on par with my current company's. So I contacted
Spoke with two talent scouts regarding positions on two different teams. Was asked behavioral questions. Moved on to a phone interview with the engineering manager for one position and a senior engineer for the other. Was rejected by both.
I recently completed (and flunked) a full interview sequence for the Senior Mac/iOS C++ Engineer position on the Adobe Application Platform (Torque Native) team. I thought it might be useful to recap the experience for the next interview candidate.
I was approached by an in-house recruiter through my LinkedIn profile. The recruiter sent me a summary job description that piqued my interest. I also checked out Adobe's benefits, and they're roughly on par with my current company's. So I contacted
Spoke with two talent scouts regarding positions on two different teams. Was asked behavioral questions. Moved on to a phone interview with the engineering manager for one position and a senior engineer for the other. Was rejected by both.