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I usually say that one shouldn't feel loyalty to a corporation because the corporation has no loyalty to you, but Adobe is different. It did feel like they looked out for you - the corporate culture is good and the workers are happy (at least the people I worked with).

I don't think they've closed a single office of the companies that they've bought over the years even if the product has since disappeared.

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Not really. They may not have "closed" their acquired Boston office, for example, but they massively downsized it. (Which is fair. They weren't doing well.)

Another poster mentioned Fireworks. That was moved to India and eventually cancelled. Lots of Adobe products that aren't doing well get moved to India, accompanied by U.S. layoffs.

I'm not saying it's a "bad" company, but it's definitely not the case that they keep offices alive when products are doing poorly, just because of employee loyalty.

How does that work? Is e.g. the Fireworks team just an isolated-to-their-own-office subteam of the Photoshop team now?

I only know what happened in my case. I worked for a Swiss company that was bought by Adobe. They pretty quickly expanded our office and we became an rnd center - the other in Europe being Hamburg.

Other examples, macromedia became their san francisco offices, navisware or some other purchase became an office in north carolina....

They must eventually close some down though - they've bought a ton of companies in the last 10 years.

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