Needs a management purge - Senior Engineer Autodesk Employee Review

2.0
19 Aug 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, some smart people and some great teams to work with if you're lucky. Is an understanding company for a working parent. Cool legacy products and devoted customers!

Cons

Management has become horrific in some teams. There is no "holocracy" here! Since managers can't lead and inspire by their vision and personality, in some teams managers are encouraged to tell their people in every 1-1 if they would hire them again. This is from some "management guru" being brought in (at significant expense i'm sure) to advise the Autodesk corporation on how to make a turn around and become a more innovative company. Regular intimidations of the programmers in an attempt to appear modern and innovative shows lack of integrity that seems to pervade the middle management at this company.

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Good WLB Low Turnover Rates Interesting Projects/Work Full Benefits + 401k

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2.0
12 Jun 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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