Autonomy Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for more than a year

Pros – Fast pacing environment;
Lot of technologies involved;
Smart people, open communication;
Your opinion is listened to;
Benefits are respectful.

Cons – Professionalism is recognized but not so fast as one would wish - promotions are slow

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy full-time

Pros – Really unique technology with impressive executives and previous sucess.

Cons – Sales team was largely ignored, tight quarters with little to no management

Advice to Senior Management – Please take time to more formely train new new business development executives to ensure they're on teh right path.

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy full-time for more than a year

Pros – The company has a large data center presence and steady growth.
As a PM, you get the chance to apply your project management skills to real-world IT projects.

Cons – Management is eccentric and acts in a secretive manner.
One day, your job is going well, and the next day, you're out the door without any explanation.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't withhold information from your employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy full-time for less than a year

Pros – most powerful black box technology for squeezing maximum value out of corporate knowledge and experience resources.

Cons – Very little flexibility in opportunity management

Advice to Senior Management – why not build a search engine based on IDOL?

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time

Pros – Very knowledgeable and talented group of people

Cons – Management lacked long term vision.

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for less than a year

Pros – most of crazy behavior is gone, the people who are left are actually very nice to work with. HP is putting in place new management who care more about people and communication

Cons – still a long way to go, some processes still not streamlined

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – None. They bought our company and destroyed it. They didn't care about customers and cared less about employees.

The only "pro" is that HP have purchased us and everything is better. It was almost an immediate turn around in terms of message. Focus is back on customer satisfaction and it's very clear that employees are considered valuable again.

Everything

Cons – I was always proud of how much my company cared about our customers and employees and then Autonomy bought us. They clearly didn't care about our customers at all. Everything was about "new license revenue". So sorry if you were already a customer.

They treated employees like a commodity that could be replaced on a whim. It was truly a terrible few years until HP purchased us and saved us from the horrible policies and behaviour of Autonomy.

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for more than a year

Pros – You can pretty much do whatever you want because your managers are rarely around and there are no repercussions for not doing your work. It took one woman approximately 6 months of not ever showing up to the office to get fired.

Cons – There is no reward for trying. They lie to you about bonuses. Only the people at the top get promotions or bonuses. Nobody is very happy. Your boss will never be around. Communication is terrible. There is absolutely no training. You either figure it out or you don't.

Advice to Senior Management – Come to the office most days of the week (at least.). Learn the word "thank you". Don't lie to your employees about bonuses. Have a minutia of transparency.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great vacation allowance. Free lunch Fridays.
Maybe HP can fix some of the mess?

Cons – Everything else.
No review/raise process. Impossible to get promoted.
Unethical sales tactics like I've never seen anywhere else.
Support and services left holding the bag with a poor quality product that is next to impossible to implement and support.
Secret engineering team that nobody is allowed to actually talk to. You NEVER receive feedback on any bugs submitted unless you are working with the latest hot customer (the one with the most new business riding on the success of your project). Although I can't imagine they actually get any repeat customers. I think Lynch and Co. knew they were running out of suckers and that they had no good reference customers left and that's why they sold.
Everything is a fire drill - even planned implementations with a long sales cycle are staffed at the last minute. PS Consultants are shipped from one project to another in a big circle as each new customer becomes frustrated with the lack of knowledge and poor quality products.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep purging all of the Autonomy middle management and horrible anti-customer anti-support, anti-employee policies.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy full-time for less than a year

Pros – Competitive salary, benefits, high tech.

Cons – Poor company culture, poor management, lack opportunities, lack training, high attrition.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend