Adobe Lead Software Engineer salaries in India (Updated 2025)

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Nothing, Adobe is full of Politics

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..."Good morning", "Good afternoon", "Good evening", and if possible, "Good night". Remarkably these actions, more than actual job performance, are touted as the key to promotion and a substantial salary increase. It's noteworthy that mastering office politics, engaging in backbiting, and merely being present take precedence over task accomplishment.

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Adobe is a complete package, festival celebrations, almost every sport, gym, awesome free food, team trips, one of the best companies to work for.

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Many Adobe products are in maintenance phase, so learning is not that much, and specifically for software engineer profile.

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Compensation - fairly high "EMPLOYEE CARE" - they treat you like assets Work-life balance is fair appraisal - average work environment - awesome innovations - employees are always encouraged to innovate

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Politics - senior employees sometimes get too politically dirty to pursue their ambitions.

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Skills development and learning is good. There are lot of perks like well being allowance and professional development allowance.

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Company has hired higher management from service company and the culture is moving towards cost cutting and increase the margin rather than improving the quality of deliverables

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Culture and Job security

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Compensation is way below that of its peers. Managers are not valued despite spending 12 to 14 hours. Also, whenever manager compensation-related questions come up management simply gives a reply which doesn't justify. There is no work-life balance for managers as we have to handle the India team as well as the US counterparts. We work 12-14 hours daily. Also, most of the time I go to meetings with very little time to learn and upskill. Because of these, it becomes really hard to grow.