An excellent place to work until it isn't - Senior Product Manager Autodesk Employee Review

2.0
May 20, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The compensation (including healthcare and wellness packages) is generally pretty good. The company is very flexible when it comes to how you want to work. They're pretty generous with annual leave, and in fact during the pandemic they offered extra company-wide holidays so you could get a break. A lot of the people who work there are smart and great to work with.

Cons

The leadership team is a dumpster fire. The CEO lacks any sort of self awareness, let alone a compelling vision, which means it is left to his direct reports to pick up the slack; except they are all too busy in-fighting and trying to leapfrog each other. As a result the culture across the organization has steadily become more toxic. From my team a bunch of people were let go and no-one ever spoke of it publicly. One day they were there and doing great work, the next it was quiet and everyone spent the next few weeks with little to no direction and a sense of dread. When I said the compensation was good, part of that is the RSUs they offer periodically for good work. Except when they make you redundant you lose them all. They make you sign a gag order in order to get slightly more compensation than the government-mandated minimum, which is the pathetically small amount of money you will receive if you don't want to sign your rights away, or are holding out to see if redundancy can be averted.

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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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