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How people got jobs at Adobe
What 68 people did before they joined Adobe: where they worked, what they studied, which role they came in through, and how long it took.
68
people in our data got there
58%
had a graduate degree first (of those listing one)
12
typical years since first job
- The most common step right before: from other companies (65%).
- The most common way in was Research (18% joined in that kind of role).
- Of those who list their education, 58% had a graduate degree before arriving and 7% a PhD.
- The typical person arrived about 12 years after their first job.
How Adobe compares
- 7% had a PhD, below the 18% across other Big Tech companies.
- People arrived about 3 years later in their careers than at the typical one of the other Big Tech companies (12 vs 8 years since their first job).
Among people who list their education; places with at least 10 such people.
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| People listing education | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | 50 | 78% |
| 16 | 75% | |
| Meta | 103 | 71% |
| 105 | 69% | |
| NVIDIA | 36 | 67% |
| Amazon | 54 | 63% |
| Adobe (this page) | 43 | 58% |
| Microsoft | 97 | 58% |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | 44 | 50% |
| Palantir Technologies | 36 | 50% |
| Salesforce | 28 | 43% |
| Oracle | 30 | 37% |
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| Median years | ||
|---|---|---|
| Adobe (this page) | 12 yrs | |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | 11 yrs | |
| Salesforce | 11 yrs | |
| NVIDIA | 10 yrs | |
| Apple | 10 yrs | |
| Meta | 8 yrs | |
| Palantir Technologies | 8 yrs | |
| 7 yrs | ||
| Microsoft | 7 yrs | |
| Oracle | 7 yrs | |
| Amazon | 6 yrs | |
| 6 yrs |
Which role they joined in
Kinds of role with fewer than 5 people are combined into "All other roles".
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| All other roles | 42 | 62% |
| Research | 12 | 18% |
| Sales & business development | 7 | 10% |
| Data science & ML | 7 | 10% |
What they did right before
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| From other companies | 44 | 65% |
| From Big Tech | 10 | 15% |
| From banks & Fortune 500 | 6 | 9% |
| Other | 8 | 12% |
Education
Among the 43 of 68 people who list their education.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelor's | 18 | 42% |
| Master's | 13 | 30% |
| MBA | 9 | 21% |
| PhD | 3 | 7% |
How much experience they had
Among the 63 of 68 people with an earlier job listed.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| 1-3 years | 5 | 8% |
| 3-5 years | 4 | 6% |
| 5-8 years | 14 | 22% |
| 8-12 years | 9 | 14% |
| 12+ years | 31 | 49% |
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How these numbers are made. From 3k+ public career histories collected for careerladder.fyi (dated jobs, degrees and publications). The collection was built around particular employers, so people who reached well-known tech, AI and finance employers are over-represented: read shares as "among people in this dataset", not as hiring odds. Names are shown only when at least 5 people are behind them; smaller groups are combined into "Other". No individual profile is shown. Updated November 2026.