Autonomy Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy

Pros – some good technology, good, smart people, interesting story to tell

Cons – tremendous and unnecessary amount of pressure to make quarterly #'s. Very short sighted. Very bad internal CRM. Lack of customer support and R&D spend.

Advice to Senior Management – please take a longer term view and invest in customer satisfaction, implementation excellence and the sales will come. move to HP's SalesForce.com. Integrate sales force to focus on customers, not specific products. too hard to tell a holistic story

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Good product strategy. If you can sell in this environment, you can make as much money as anyone in the software sales game.

Cons – Abusive management relationship to sales force. Completely obscure pricing policies. "Smash and grab" sales culture. Close the deal at all costs, with no future commitment to customer success or satisfaction.

Advice to Senior Management – Get your personal affairs in order before reporting to the penitentiary to begin serving your sentence.

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 less than a year

Pros – Flexible working environment with the ability to focus on historical and new accounts

Cons – no real sales strategy - treat every deal as tactical. Management can come across as desperate to close any size of deal

Advice to Senior Management – start to take a more holistic approach to selling into major accounts and they will take you serious

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Great marketing - cool message. Great Sales reps. Much better after the HP sale. Benefits are good.

Cons – over 90% turnover for a reason. You can sell, but management will take the deal away from you so you don't get the commission. Pricing is not available for sales people on 90% of the products and to get pricing, you have to give up 75% of your commission. Lot's of travel, metrics - 5 face to face a week and 1 proposal. No org chart, limited access to engineers, no white papers. Some of the software works. Run away! Don't stop here.

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 – - Excellent middle management. I worked in a small team, with a very bright manager who possessed an excellent confluence of traits. He was friendly, patient, and a great teacher - always available if I had a question or got stuck on something. Furthermore, he started me off with excellent assignments that got me diving into the code base and getting things done right away. In the long term, there were going to be some bigger architectural redesigns that were going to be a lot of fun to work on.

- Free soda / coffee / tea / etc all the time, and good free food on Fridays.

- Work/life balance was exceptional. No one was in competition to stay the latest. I kept very reasonable hours.

- Business was growing. Lots of opportunity to advance at the company in the long term, and its nice being at a company with plenty of cash flow.

- I only left to go back to graduate school for my PhD. Otherwise, I would have been happy there for the foreseeable future.

Cons – -The office space is a bit old fashioned (lots of cubicles), but at least the views are nice in the breakroom etc.

- Also, its worth pointing out that the company has changed hands several times in the past few years. Many of the bad reviews on this site I don't think are accurate. The environment at autonomy changed significantly in early 2012, after being purchased by HP. I wouldn't give much weight to reviews before early/mid 2012.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – I suppose there are career opportunities at HP if that sort of thing attracts you. Beyond that there's little reason talent would come here anymore. No upside, not part of a growth culture, more changes no doubt yet to come so not sure what horse you'll be riding. Some of the remaining people are great, but sure to leave.

Cons – Ch-ch-changes. It's not the changes per se, but the reality that this is no longer a high-growth, high energy software company. With some luck (mostly) it will become something in HP. More likely it continues to whither, and make no mistake about it that has been happening. It could have been a contender...

Advice to Senior Management – It's a ship without a captain. No one has a clue what the direction is, and no one cares. People will jump ship with that plunging HP share price.

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 less than a year

Pros – Has some neat new technology to work with

Cons – Bad management and leadership overall.

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 job provides a decent lifestyle and interesting challenging work. Awesome people that hold the teams together.

Cons – I don't have anything particularly new to say compared to the present reviews. I can see truth in most of the issues raise, but wonder if it's really that different to other companies.

Advice to Senior Management – Looking forward to see what magic HP can bring. I am very hopeful that Meg Whitman sees the challenge of transforming the business from ones that driven by sales to one that driven by customer (and hopefully employee) satisfaction.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – the people and culture are great

Cons – rewards and lack of performance reviews

Advice to Senior Management – performance reviews

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Nice perks such as Spurs tickets and awesome Christmas parties.

Cons – Massive favouritism, steady increase of targets and workload with no recompense at all, incompetant commissions staff consistently making errors and then the company fails to rectify mistakes, policy of zero pay rise even to mirror inflation, company is run through a culture of fear.

Advice to Senior Management – Nurture your staff, don't belittle them into being better. Increase targets by all means, but reward this extra work financially. Mistakes happen with regards to commissions, fair enough, but rectify these immediately instead of forcing financial hardship on your staff.

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