Autodesk Reviews

Pros

family oriented and supports work life balance

Cons

career development opportunities can be poor and far between

Advice to Senior Management

continue to work on career dev plans with team and target specific groups where more help is needed

Pros

Autodesk has a competitive spirit and a culture of highly motivated team membres that are driven to acheive leadership's vision.

Cons

If you aren't driven to work hard, innovate often, and adapt to change, the fast-pace world of technology won't be a good fit.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to encourage and enable innovation within your very talented organization. The power of Autodesk is in it's highly-driven people.

Pros

A great place to work, i'm constantly impressed with the level of talent of the people I work with, smart, clever, easy to get along with and always at the top of their game.

Cons

Sometimes it feels like you can't change things from the bottom up, however it is very easy to go talk directly to senior management, to get your voice heard, so its rarely a problem.

Advice to Senior Management

Be transparent, don't try to pit teams against each other, we're all smart and good at working together we'd rather compete with outside forces that other teams internally.

Pros

Fantastic products and company strategy and direction are inspiring!
Excellent work/life balance and people are smart, talented and respectful. It's a dynamic, global company with tremendous opportunities to challenge yourself and grow. Great office environments and benefits are outstanding! The executive team is intelligent and down to earth.

Cons

Performance needs to be dealt with more aggressively as there are some people who are not meeting the current bar of performance.
Global company means meetings at odd times but the flexible work environment enables you to work around this so you're not working 24 hours a day!

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to communicate - the company vision and strategy are incredbily inspiring!

Pros

I've worked for Autodesk for almost seven years. I worked for four other employers previously; non-profit, for-profit, Fortune 50, high-tech, no-tech, ect. This is the best of them all and I'm not thinking about leaving. Autodesk has the benefits of an established company in a fast-paced and innovative industry. It is truly a global company with equal amounts of revenue coming from AMER, EMEA and APAC. It is a good company; kind to the environment, fair to employees and contributes positively to the communities where it is located. Carl Bass, the CEO, socializes with employees, especially on a field, track or court.

Cons

Often long and odd hours; calls at 10:00 pm and 6:00 am. People get in here and stay, so you really have to impress to get ahead. Poor performers are not always dealt with so you have to work around them.

Advice to Senior Management

Find a new way to manage the street. US employees need more vacation time.

Pros

Work life balance. Not sure about guys work in other project, but working time is quite flexible.
Nice building and working condition.
Medical insurance covers the whole family.

Cons

Promotion opportunity is limited.
Desktop app is not hot in the market now.
Some unqualified colleagues. It would be a disaster if happen to work with them.
Not a good place for growth.

Pros

Decent work life balance most of the time
Good benefits plus 6 week sabbatical for U.S. employees every 4 years
Really like the new consumer products area Autodesk is getting into
Casual work environment

Cons

Too many meetings about nothing
Pay is mainly in the mid-range, although senior management is paid very well
Individual contributors are not well compensated - you need to be a manager to have a decent salary
Most mid-level managers manage their teams poorly - they need more training
Non-revenue generating departments are extremely tight with their budgets and stretch their employees
Annual employee survey doesn't show much results
Carl Bass doesn't have company wide meetings

Pros

Good Pay, benefits and work life balance

Cons

would be better if there were more options for career growth

Pros

Good Benefit Package, casual , chance to learn about culture in an international company creating a very interesting work environment.
Products are great and respected by many customers.

Cons

Middle Management are awful unprepared and unfair.
No leadership at all from these people.
Need more trained managers and better HR team.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention to the middle management. There a lot of people in these positions that are incompetents and don't deserve the salaries they are receiving.

Pros

Good product mix and product growth

Cons

Senior Management has no respect for sales.