Incapable middle management making work environment hostile! - Software Development Engineer 4 Adobe Employee Review

1.0
1 Apr 2023
Recommend
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Pros

There are amazing perks and benefits, such as, wellness fund, free food, insurance coverage etc. Unfortunately, not able to find any pros for working environment and culture, especially, in India.

Cons

You’ll be assigned a task with an expectation of finishing it in a week and within a few days, you’ll see someone else is working in it without your knowledge. The new person will work on it for months and eventually fail (as his competences were different), then guess what, the leadership will blame you saying it was your responsibility to make it successful. The best part is you were not at all included is all the communications with this new person or not at included in any decisions, however, still the blame would be on you. In case of success, it’s the the manager, who are doing right things. Maturity level of middle managers is questionable and most have a set of favourites who are treated very well. The bad part is managers are showing wrong picture of their own team in front of the leadership, so, that, the leadership assume that, all the work is being taken care of because of the manager and this person is putting lot of effort. However, the fact is manager is making things worse.

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5.0
8 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Awesome culture. I love going to work every day. People are really nice - exciting to be in the industry where a lot of innovation is happening - good work life balance - flexible RTO - two one-week shutdowns per year, unlimited PTO, global wellness days, great benefits

Cons

- Leadership lost its way. Missed huge opportunities in markets served by Canva and GenAI. Took the wrong bet on commercially safe models, missing out on huge opportunities that were captured by competing GenAI models. No clear strategy or vision from management about how to get back in track. Our products are losing market share every day and management seems to be lime deer in headlights, unsure what to do - Watching stock price deflating nearly every day is disheartening - Decision making is very slow. Takes ages to get things approved. - C-suite is mostly over 50 and often seem out of touch with latest AI and tech trends. Uphill battle sometimes to get them to see urgent opportunities that need to be acted on immediately - Adobe failed to organically develop major products in the last 20 years. Major recent ones; Firefly and Express; have not been successful.

3.0
8 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great opportunity to learn from incredibly smart people, many opportunities to continue education, great for independent workers, not so for entry

Cons

Upper management forgets that first line managers need training. You need a thick skin to survive them

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