Frequent management reorgs - Anonymous employee Autodesk Employee Review

2.0
Sep 19, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great technology and products Technical staff is very knowledgeable - many are experts in the field Excellent salaries and benefits

Cons

Company is in a constant state of reorganization - leaders changing and org charts being redrawn every 3-4 months. Reorgs seem to do little other than rearrange the chairs. Paralyzed by consensus decision making and many believing they can ignore direction until it is changed to suit their liking. Management afraid to lead - more worried about being liked than leading Uneven application of technology - some areas are very backward in their application of technology

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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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