Autonomy Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Market leading compensation rates - realistic top tier was around 15% commission (on $500k+ worth of deals in a single Q).

Cons – No sales support, awful CRM, management and sales reps treated as commodities. Churn and burn environment. NO account ownership - every account is up for grabs, and you'd spend 1/2 your time or more fending off other reps trying to sell the same product to your accounts - potentially from across the country.

Advice to Senior Management – Enable sales, don't treat them like useless mindless monkeys.

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

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The marketing is top-notch. It basically sells itself.

Cons – Too many to list. It was a sinking ship even before HP came along, now it's just hit an Iceberg and shattered in pieces!

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 – Autonomy does have some outstanding software products that are good and provide value when they are installed and configured correctly.....

Very nice co-workers that will try to help you

Cons – *Senior leadership does not care about the satisfaction of their customers.
*They acquire companies, integrate their IDOL technology, significantly reduce the development and support staff, but increase the sales force too large and very few sales people make any good money.
*Terrible customer support
* Sales leadership regularly in group meetings unprofessionally tears sales reps apart verbally.... a real team moral killer.
* The fastest revolving door of good sales people that I have ever witnessed.
* Sales leadership is very direct and aggressive about driving the sales teams to just close the business, take the money and run, whether the customer will benefit from the software or not.
* Many unhappy customers who admit that after they purchased the software they felt abandoned.
*Senior leadership only focused on selling the business to cash out which they did to HP who I believe will regret their decision

Advice to Senior Management – HP management needs to completely clean house of all senior leadership and completely clean house of all sales leadership and sales managers. They all need to go as soon as possible.

The market for their products does not support the size of their current sales staff headcount which needs to be reduced by at least 50% to allow those that remain to make a living.

Reinvest in technical support teams to improve customer satisfaction

Reinvest in product development to update some of the products which are getting rather old in the tooth from a technology perspective.

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 – Came for aggressive comp plan and thought I knew about the culture walking into this role but boy was I was wrong. It was everything and more and that's not good.

Cons – Everything you've read about this company is 100% true. Win at all costs is the motto here. Do anything/say anything to get the deal and let someone else worry about the customer satisfaction.

Advice to Senior Management – Now that HP owns the company I'm sure the toxic culture is being driven out of the Autonomy organization. To the current and former Autonomy management team, check your ego at the door, treat people like you want to be treated, and be honest (to your employees and your customers).

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 – Technology is unreal. Good comp plan.

Cons – No territories and very few and very reluctant technical resources.

Advice to Senior Management – Structure the sales model and hire and train pre-sales tech resources.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – they'll hire just about anybody

Cons – sham of a company, as evidenced by the inevitable fallout that has come after the HP acquisition put an end to the phony management. little of real value here, but amazing salesmanship.

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

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time

Pros – Free Friday Lunch, great co-worker

Cons – Bad Management, and bad management

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Broad product offering, good technology mix

Cons – Horrible culture, run through fear and intimidation.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more positive, use the carrot more then the stick

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

Pros – Great co-workers, interesting product, great clients -- OK company with an average reputation and now part of a legacy company with reputation in question

Cons – Autonomy may or not find its way as part of HP -- the parent company is so large and at such a questionable place on its own timeline -- it's hard to see where or in what form Autonomy will be a factor in its life and work

Advice to Senior Management – Connect with workers with bonuses and in-person conferencing to build loyalty, otherwise attrition will continue and the ideas that could enhance its relevance will go with exiting workers

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – The benefits are great. The work can be interesting. Opportunities to travel and diversify work on occasion.

Cons – Disjointed Structure, Poor Incentives, Detached Management, No Culture. Management shows, at best, a tolerance for employees. Desire to increase sales no matter how unreasonable the client's demands.

Advice to Senior Management – Reward people, communicate, and listen. Don't hide in your office or behind your computer. Give employees incentives to increase revenue and stop micromanaging.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend