Pros and Cons - Sales Autodesk Employee Review

4.0
Jan 26, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fantastic software that customers love. Offices are very nice. Benefits are outstanding, generous PTO, excellent health insurance at low cost, and more. CEO Carl Bass is a Rock Star. Employees and customers really respect him.

Cons

While customers love the software, many of them are still very unhappy about the changes to pricing model which makes it hard to sell to them. Relationships between resellers and Autodesk can be rocky. Company-wide, employees seem to spend more time navigating company politics than I've seen elsewhere. Perhaps that's because the company is so large?

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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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