Great work/life balance, too much politics - Anonymous employee Autodesk Employee Review

5.0
Apr 28, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It's a good company, it provides you a big satisfaction to know that you are undirectly participating in engineering and architecture. Great work/life balance: the company is quite flexible on providing you the possibility to work from home, to take some days off if needed.

Cons

Too much politics on the management level. Instead of being operationally efficient and dedicate their time and skills to their job, a lot of time is wasted on meetings planning "with whom and against whom we work". Because of that good, proffessional people for whom the most important is their work, implementation of their techinical skills, are leaving to another companies with more dedicated management.

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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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