Disappointing Flow: Great Product Vision & Poor Delivery Culture - Principal Technical Program Manager Autodesk Employee Review

3.0
Dec 17, 2024
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Pros

-The CEO is purpose-driven, charismatic, and genuinely wants everyone to prioritize users and customers. The compelling vision is effectively communicated by senior leadership. -Employee benefits are modern, relevant, and competitive. I appreciated the ERGs which were particularly active and present. -I had the opportunity to work alongside a talented team of product, engineering and visual effects experts who were dedicated and highly skilled. -The product vision for Flow MVP was clear, well-defined, and easily translated into actionable requirements, roadmap and backlog for the engineering teams.

Cons

-It was challenging to provide honest assessments of program progress due to an environment where raising concerns was discouraged. Deadlines and performance benchmark were continually missed. -The engineering culture was characterized by public challenges and intense scrutiny during demos. It fuelled an intimidating work atmosphere for engineers. -Middle management was somewhat disorganized, marked by finger-pointing. It hindered collaboration, risk management and execution agility.

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2.0
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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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