Good paymaster but needs to work on employee motivation - Anonymous employee Autodesk Employee Review

3.0
Mar 9, 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

* Management is supportive but not as liberal as they make it to be... * Helpful coworkers * Good paymaster * 2010 & 2011 has been good for Autodesk with acquisitions and leveraging the "cloud"

Cons

* The Singapore office isn't as liberal to say working from home * The folks in the Singapore office are not skilled in leveraging open source technologies, adopting that mindset is hard * Folks lack modern software engineering practices but they do try to adopt though change is slow coming * Folks lack PASSSION - it's just a day job to them. * Most of the interesting work is carried out in the US - i question the value of the satelite offices...

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2.0
Jun 12, 2026
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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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