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Don't look down

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Adobe for 4 years
May 14, 2020
San Francisco, California
4.0
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Pros

Work-life balance is possibly the best in the industry.

Moderately competitive pay; it's hard to compete with FAANG numbers, but it's close.

Cons

Core technology is not valued enough. It's built by offshore teams that simply could not care less about writing good code. Nearly everything below the product-level code is a disaster, either in progress or waiting to happen.

Product teams have some geniuses in their field. If you can work with them, absolutely do so.

The interview process is probably too easy, to a fault. You're going to work with some folks who coasted through the last 10 years because they know how to write a for loop. There's a lot of engineering fat and process bloat.

Advice to Management

Find the 20% of engineers on your team that know what they're doing (you know who they are) and give them much more freedom to improve your products. They know it better than you ever can, and most of them are saying it's a mess. You should be terrified by that.

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