Autonomy Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy

Pros – Phenomenal technology, Diverse service offerings, HP owned, Great whitepapers, collateral, marketing brochures. Products and Services Relevant now with product offerings. Heavily focused and successful in delivering Cloud Solutions.

Cons – Metrics Based in a big way, rigid systems that do not provide good workflow for a field rep. No real account ownership outside of certain divisions, Tech Support could be improved, Company being integrated into HP and this creates apprehension for some.

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy

Pros – Gain experience, great set of products.

Cons – No chance of advancing at the region I am in.

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy

Pros – Generous vacation is offered. Allows for a relaxed work-lifestyle given that your work schedule can be flexible. Exposure to other product offerings and possible career changes. Employees with a proactive attitude can thrive here. Good stock options or restricted stock units rewarded. Good bonus plan.

Cons – An ambiguous company structure from an employee career growth perspective. No annual salary increases. Additional compensation based on qualitative milestones. Employee review or assessments are not well structured or non-existent in some cases. Impersonal culture.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide career paths or options for employees. More clarity to the review process for employee performance assessment and its translation to compensation.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy

Pros – Stable and growing industry, great fro those wanting job stability.

Cons – Lack of departmental leadership, and leadership is burdened with responsibility without power.

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy

Pros – HP recently purchased them and appears changes are coming (hopefully to management)
Pay is OK
They have Free Lunch Fridays

Cons – Treat employees poorly
Management is clueless
No advancement opportunities
No HR review process or annual raises (get your money going in because you will never see another dime)
High turnover rate

Advice to Senior Management – Create a review process for employees and merit increases
It is hard to keep good people if you do not incent them!
For the love of god.... contribute more than $1000 annually to 401K. Most real companies match employees contributions!

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy

Pros – Great products and technology
Strong financials
Market leader
Opportunity to make a lot of money

Cons – Brutal culture - either fit or you're gone
Micro management

Advice to Senior Management – Hire professionals and provide latitude to do things their own way

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy

Pros – It has some good technologies and smart peoples. It also pays good after merger with other small companies.

Cons – benefits are not good. the company is pretty stringent on everything, from pc, laptop and other stuff. Low benefit matches.

Advice to Senior Management – please offer good benefit packages, good 401k matches. Put more energy on research and development, not only on sales.

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy

Pros – There are some very smart people working here. Autonomy has interesting core technology and a good story behind it. It continues to grow and is constantly moving.

Cons – Autonomy has been swallowing up companies. It doesn't make the best decisions about how to use those resources. Decisions are often made from the top. There is no management structure so communication about important changes are often through the rumor mill.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy

Pros – some good technology and people with a purpose

Cons – no communication, no idea where an employee fits into the global scheme of things

Advice to Senior Management – be more employee friendly and transparent

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy

Pros – Great commission if you are successful

Cons – Lackluster training, huge pressure to perform with little ownership of sales process by others.