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DX has been the most brutal division of the company to work in for a while now. it’s pretty well known across Adobe that going to DX will probably double your workload and seriously impact your work/life balance especially if you’re coming from one of the more chill orgs in the company (of which there are many). But anyway to answer your question I’m sure there will be some layoffs in DX as the heat gets turned up even hotter, but I think there will be layoffs across every org, nobody is safe. Making Anil the CEO is pretty much an indication that Adobe is going to focus a lot more on growing the DX vertical, and are basically waving the white flag on consumer creative software, accepting the fact that Figma, Canva, Capcut, etc etc have taken their marketshare and Adobe won’t be able to win it back. Side note, this failure is why DW didn’t get the CEO role and why his departure is meaningless. So I actually think DX will be relatively protected from layoffs versus other divisions in that regard, since the company has realized it’s one of the few viable growth opportunities (which I personally disagree with, but the folks in the C Suite definitely know things I don’t). So who will be impacted the most by layoffs?
Adobe has a ton of what I’d label as “late career coasters”, there are just tons of people who are age 50+ that have been at the company forever and have good connections and good relationships with everyone, but literally add no value. To be clear, I have no issue with people over 50 working at large tech companies, but you gotta be contributing. Many of them are not, and these people will be the first to go, and there are a lot of them. Adobe also has a ton of management layers, I believe many of them will be flattened with the leaders given the option to either go IC or leave the company. Also worth mentioning, outside of a few teams, there is no company wide mandate for RTO, this will change in 2027. It’ll start with mandatory 2 days a week, then 3 then 4 then 5. Writing is on the wall for that one. Once that new policy is in place it’ll shake out some of the working parents who will be seriously impacted by RTO with regards to their childcare and home routines. After that has been done then the layoffs will happen, and they’ll hit every part of the company, not just DX.
For what it’s worth please be aware that I don’t have any inside information or anything like that, all of the above is just my opinion based on what I’m seeing and the conversations I’m hearing in the office. 

DX has been the most brutal division of the company to work in for a while now. it’s pretty well known across Adobe that going to DX will probably double your workload and seriously impact your work/life balance especially if you’re coming from one of the more chill orgs in the company (of which there are many). But anyway to answer your question I’m sure there will be some layoffs in DX as the heat gets turned up even hotter, but I think there will be layoffs across every org, nobody is safe. Making Anil the CEO is pretty much an indication that Adobe is going to focus a lot more on growing the DX vertical, and are basically waving the white flag on consumer creative software, accepting the fact that Figma, Canva, Capcut, etc etc have taken their marketshare and Adobe won’t be able to win it back. Side note, this failure is why DW didn’t get the CEO role and why his departure is meaningless. So I actually think DX will be relatively protected from layoffs versus other divisions in that regard, since the company has realized it’s one of the few viable growth opportunities (which I personally disagree with, but the folks in the C Suite definitely know things I don’t). So who will be impacted the most by layoffs?
Adobe has a ton of what I’d label as “late career coasters”, there are just tons of people who are age 50+ that have been at the company forever and have good connections and good relationships with everyone, but literally add no value. To be clear, I have no issue with people over 50 working at large tech companies, but you gotta be contributing. Many of them are not, and these people will be the first to go, and there are a lot of them. Adobe also has a ton of management layers, I believe many of them will be flattened with the leaders given the option to either go IC or leave the company. Also worth mentioning, outside of a few teams, there is no company wide mandate for RTO, this will change in 2027. It’ll start with mandatory 2 days a week, then 3 then 4 then 5. Writing is on the wall for that one. Once that new policy is in place it’ll shake out some of the working parents who will be seriously impacted by RTO with regards to their childcare and home routines. After that has been done then the layoffs will happen, and they’ll hit every part of the company, not just DX.
For what it’s worth please be aware that I don’t have any inside information or anything like that, all of the above is just my opinion based on what I’m seeing and the conversations I’m hearing in the office.