Stable, but room for improvement - Anonymous employee Autodesk Employee Review

3.0
Oct 28, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

C-staff are inspiring and motivating Work from home on Fridays Game room but not easily accessible Variety of interesting products Overarching business strategy towards cloud and subscription is encouraging Always something to do

Cons

Middle management struggles to lead, inspire and not as tech-savvy as they should be. Conservative about trying new technology Little encouragement to innovate Very matrix-ed and organizationally spread out making it difficult to complete a project in timely fashion Heavy emphasis on meetings Work/ life balance difficult to maintain Political - focused on the how something gets done vs. what gets accomplished

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

The individual contributors, your peers you work with day in and day out are fantastic people! At the IC level, for the most part, it feels like everyone is in the fight together. The work/life balance is good depending on which business unit/team you're aligned with. The benefits are pretty solid, especially the 6 week sabbatical.

Cons

Autodesk moves at the pace of a snail, very slow to take action on anything. Selling is very difficult with all the undocumented approvals, processes, red tape and very few people are willing to actually help! Leadership doesn't care about the people their decisions impact. Feedback is rarely listened to and acted upon. Pay is terrible compared to competitors in this space. Autodesk has embraced a ton of change over the last few years with new marketing, sales and IT leadership and it shows. They are not shy in showing their desire to be the next Oracle at the expense of their people. They are constantly changing tools, processes, people, roles, you name it so you feel like you're under water constantly. Lipstick on a pig.

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