Autodesk Employee Reviews about "layoff"

Pros

- Great trust with employees (I worked remotely) - unlimited sick days - telecommuting benefits (could work from home 2 days a week) - Great managers - Talented employees

Cons

- A layoff a year it seems - Many managers as a result

Pros

Very good work balance. Interesting and fancy products, and many talent peoples.

Cons

office political. slowly career promotion layoff people with old skill-set

Pros

- Time flexibility - Work from home - Good opportunity to work on latest technology - Nice talented people - Ahead in CAD domain as per adoption of latest things like cloud. - If you are performer then you will get rewards - Cool Culture and Work life balance.

Cons

- Very Dynamic culture - Frequent project sunset - Every year layoff and restructuring

Pros

Not much work assigned as people are too old in the organization to work. Work Life balance is top class. Disability leave pays 67% of base salary , so most people taking that for a year. Awesome idea to survive layoff and to look for a new job.

Cons

No salary hikes, work is crap, very less annual bonus, useless junk managers always sucking up to their managers. The company currently has more managers and QA than developers. In fact most dev managers in US have one or two managers in Asia reporting to them. The company is offshoring all the work to Shanghai and Singapore at a very fast rate as their cloud products have failed miserably. Few wrong people have taken over the board and killing the tech culture at Autodesk. The CEO Carl Bass was all set to be sacked but then he resigned from CEO position last month and there are no CEO for the company for the time being, as the two interim CEO who are SVPs are fighting it out.

Pros

Great benefits. Nice "off-site" meetings, nice parties. They spend $$$ on these.

Cons

They layoff ~10% of their workforce each year (which is what happened to me after 10 years on the job). Reporting out, every week, on your progress. Some of the departments do this monthly. Few report out quarterly. You are reporting on your progress con.stant.ly. It's a time sucker. Speaking of suckers, middle managers suck up with no shame to their upper management. It's disgusting.

Pros

People are very down to earth and friendly.

Cons

Change every year. It layoff each year from 2015-2018

Pros

Many individual high performers Majority of them 20+ years at the company Rich line & legacy of features Reasonably innovative Great set of co-workers in general

Cons

AutoCAD management is a sore spot. Top heavy, plagued by politics, lack of vision, lack of transparency Episodic & random layoff decisions every few years....poor choice of who is let go. Just announced 10% massive layoff in 2016, took everyone by surprise As a consequence, affects employee morale Bias towards tenured employees In other words, management really sucks

Pros

Good benefit. Great, talented people(past) and technology. Somewhat Diversity. Flexible work hours (depends on department). Great location in Bay Area.

Cons

Highly political and silos. Too many Layoffs and reorganization. Layoff by political reason. Too many middle and senior managers who doesn't do much work but work around politics. Unprofessional recruiters.