Autodesk reviews

Planning and organisation are things which never touch Autodesk at any point. Internally they are chaotic with departments and teams working at complete cross-purposes all over the place. They politics is also unhealthy -- not in the sense of evil or repressive, but more in the sense of all the decision making happens miles from the work-face... Senior managers are impossibly remote and irrelevant. Middle managers have no idea what the actual detailed issues facing the company are, so instead generate a stream of spin and "initiatives" which in theory drive the company but actually just gets in the way. Projects are launched with great fanfare, planned only in the broadest terms, then teams spend some years trying to live with the Realpolitik in a way which still permits them to do something useful. After that the project never ends, instead it is just quietly forgotten and there is never any objective attempt to determine whether it succeeded. Frequently you will find yourself doing what you know is the wrong thing, but which has the correct politically acceptable labels associated with it.

New CFO hands-off, too busy with activist investors Leadership underneath CFO too busy jockeying to become next CFO Promotions are a mixed bag with several clearly political