Good employees, cool products but management could use improvement. - Anonymous employee Autodesk Employee Review

3.0
Oct 31, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent work life balance most of the time Good benefits plus 6 week sabbatical for U.S. employees every 4 years Really like the new consumer products area Autodesk is getting into Casual work environment

Cons

Too many meetings about nothing Pay is mainly in the mid-range, although senior management is paid very well Individual contributors are not well compensated - you need to be a manager to have a decent salary Most mid-level managers manage their teams poorly - they need more training Non-revenue generating departments are extremely tight with their budgets and stretch their employees Annual employee survey doesn't show much results Carl Bass doesn't have company wide meetings

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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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