Adobe HubSpot MLE - Is it a good place to be in 2026?

We just got a new office in Atlanta and it’s actually nice. MC can feel a bit hectic occasionally with deadlines due to new Adobe leadership coming in wanting to leave an impact, but it’s because Adobe has put so much money into the org and are eagerly waiting to see the ROI. Not all teams are like this and things are still changing for the better as a whole and I think it would be a strong opportunity. MC itself has a truly fun culture and our ML/AI use cases actually impacts our customers in a positive way. There’s a big opportunity to get in early here at MC since we’re still growing while others are impacted by layoffs. MC follows a bunch of Adobe’s career growth strategy so your promotion is very data driven and is essentially up to you. You will hear people around you supporting you to submit a promo packet and the conversations will happen, but at the conclude of the day, you own your own career and you have to prepare the packets and submit them yourself. Management will aid, but I wouldn’t bank of them doing everything for you.

The product itself is moving towards a more modern stack, but the process is as fast as you can imagine for moving a 20+ year monolith into AWS. Teams are using a lot of AWS tools nowadays, but it’s fully up to which team you’re on. I imagine the ML group is using a mixture of GCP and AWS.

Even though there has been some stressful situations here at MC with re-orgs and management changes, it’s still by far my favorite gig to date. I don’t think you’d regret coming here and I’m sure your group will be highly valued.

Thanks for sharing the positives! Good to realize they are moving into AWS.

How plenty of years have you been with MC (were you there during the acquisition)? Could you speak to the drove of customers leaving the product or the middle management politics?

Coming from a well-established large tech company, I am used to having dependable peers to unblock me, even if the managers are not always supportive.

You get 3 weeks vacation and you rack up 1 sick hour for each 30 hours you work. You also get 18 US holidays off and an amazing 16 week parental depart.

Maybe MLE is separate, but Engineering in general is a dumpster fire here from where I'm sitting.

My position says Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning, but it sounds more like data engineering in the job description.

Can you elaborate on Engineering being a dumpster? Are you referring to the Atlanta location?

I just landed an offer, too! Can’t figure out pto. Is 3 weeks standard for all time off or only vacation and additional sick days?

Thanks for sharing. How do you personally manage the chaos (or do you just let thing happen and suggest one to coast)?

Do you see ANY things that have improved since the acquisition?

I would say the bad things you mentioned in your OP are basically correct, and the acquisition has not been kind to the firm, e.g. the technical culture is kind of "MC is a young shop and doesn't have processes for X and now Adobe is saying we have to do Y by Z date". It's a mess, basically, and a bunch of teams don't get any relief or support.