{"id":18971,"date":"2022-01-17T21:46:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T05:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=18971"},"modified":"2022-01-17T21:46:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T05:46:18","slug":"why-adobe-my-thoughts-in-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/17\/why-adobe-my-thoughts-in-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why Adobe?&#8221; My thoughts in Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I, along with a number of colleagues, had the opportunity the other day to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-working-at-adobe-is-like-employee-stories-2022-1?IR=C\">speak<\/a> to Rachel DuRose of Insider (formerly Business Insider) about why we work at Adobe\u2014and why a number of us have returned. In case you&#8217;re interested, here are my summarized comments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;- <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I joined Adobe in 2000. I was working on web animation tools and after a couple years on that, a job opened on Photoshop. I ended up going to Google in 2014 because they were making a huge push into computational photography.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I guess a key difference for me between companies is that Google got into photography kind of as a hobby, and for Adobe it&#8217;s really the bread and butter of the company. Adobe people tend to come to projects because they really care about the specific mission \u2014 people tend to commit to a project for quite some time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I came back in March of last year because I saw what Adobe had been doing around AI and machine learning. I was excited to come back and try to navigate that emerging world and figure out how we make these things useful and meaningful to a lot of folks and also do it responsibly so that it aligns with our values.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In my first tenure and in my return, imaging and the creative parts of Adobe remained the bedrock of the company identity, so I think that&#8217;s a through line. I guess the contrast, if there is one, is that now the company has expanded into all these things it really didn&#8217;t do before.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Every job is called &#8216;work&#8217; for a reason. It&#8217;s gonna be challenging and frustrating and a million other things, but the caring part, I think, is the distinctive one. I&#8217;m cool with people swearing because they care. I&#8217;m cool with people who are unreasonably committed to getting something right, or going that extra mile.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Insider.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Insider.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18972\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Insider.jpg 640w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Insider-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I, along with a number of colleagues, had the opportunity the other day to speak to Rachel DuRose of Insider (formerly Business Insider) about why we work at Adobe\u2014and why a number of us have returned. In case you&#8217;re interested, here are my summarized comments: &#8212;&#8212;- &#8220;I joined Adobe in 2000. I was working on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18973,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971\/revisions\/18973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}