Autodesk reviews

Significant politics in a toxic environment. Director promotions are not always given based on merit or competences but much more on "friendship".

The company is filled with a bunch of corporate goons that just buy up innovative companies, 95% of their software is simply acquired and they do not possess the skills to come up with new products. Strategy is middling at best, they moved to the cloud to chase Adobe, they missed the VR/AR content creation boat to Unity. The 3D printing they constantly talk about well they pretty much made Ember and the Spark platform, both failed to gain any traction. The only reason the stock is doing well is a 10% layoff (surprise margins go way up..), Trump's infrastructure investment/policies and a rotation of the ceo leadership. A little annoying to watch fanboy videos on 3d printing/robotics/VR/AR when they have objectively contributed very little of substance to those fields. These videos usually comprise of AD execs smile posing beside real innovators and leased car robots hoping some of their magic rubs off on them.