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The Adobe Tour – Waltham, MA – Office Snapshots

Stephen Searer — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:00:00 +0000

A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of visiting Massachusetts and visiting the brand new Adobe office in Waltham thanks to Greg Hoffmeister at T3 Advisors.

The new Adobe Building, which is 6 floors of LEED Platinum beauty, was a spectacular sight to see. The structure was recently finished and moved into, but still had some new building kinks to work out. One example was the light harvesting system, which was malfunctioning and keeping the building fairly darkened during our visit.

Entering was quite exciting with the wonderful entryway, complete with an invention wall, which highlighted many patents that the offices employees held. The interior space of the building was just about as new and polished as you could imagine, with much of the building being unused at this time. One of the neat features was the community meeting room on the lower level that is open to any local non-profits organizations that need somewhere to meet.

As you can see, the office space is fairly straightforward, with employees having the opportunity to select their desk options, which were made by Herman Miller. The building also has a couple large training rooms that can house a number of people looking to advance their skills with Adobe products. Another interesting feature was the wall coating in some areas, which was basically paint-on whiteboard created by IdeaPaint.

You’re should also know about the cafeteria rating system which is pretty ingenious. A red ball in the bucket means ‘try again’, yellow means ‘good’, and green means ‘very good’. This allows the chefs to come up with meal options the staff actually enjoy.

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Adobe Offices – San Francisco

Stephen Searer — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:15:56 +0000

Adobe is a company that makes homes out of a type of mud and straw that is unique to several regions of the world including California’s southwest. They also created many popular applications for computers out of mud too. Just don’t try to stick mud into your cd-rom drive or else you might be sued for piracy.

During one of my visits to SF, I walked past this office on my way from Seesmic to Tokbox, unfortunately I didn’t just walk right in. Had I, I would have seen what looks like a great looking space with tons (thousands of pounds) of natural light. The building also has a wonderful brick exterior, though sadly not made of adobe.

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Adobe HQ

Jose Ramirez — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:30:55 +0000

Adobe is huge. From Flash, to Photoshop, to Acrobat, to Dreamweaver, if you’re reading this then I bet you’ve used Adobe. Their main offices in San Jose are as big as you might expect, housing almost half of their 6,600 total employees. The two towers are connected by a cool bridge thing. It would be neat if the floor was glass, but I imagine that probably isn’t the case.

Adobe is very often near the top of “Best Places to Work” lists, and it’s not hard to see why. Just look at the basketball court between the two towers. Everything is so shiny and classy, this place is perfect for an Old Money software company.

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