Autodesk reviews

Autodesk does regular layoffs, 2 times a year. No real method to the madness. Very unstable and director level is detached and not transparent. You'll never see it coming. I was sold on Autodesk by the interviewer and left my company of 6 years, only to be out of work. BE CAREFUL!

The people at the helm will gut engineering departments and replace them with engineers in Bangalore and/or Shanghai, or fresh out of school, to meet the bottom line and appease Wall Street. They've done it before, they'll do it again. Beware. If this company didn't own the DWG format they would have died decades ago. AutoCAD profit has allowed them to buy their way into other industries, and gobble up competition, and then over time release those engineers and replace them with cheaper talent either overseas or right from school. They have done this time and time again. It's a modern day form of corporate raiding. It is a terrible way to run a business, and it is a reason why they can't grow ANY software in house and have it succeed, outside of Autocad and it's verticals. Virtually all successful products beyond these have been ACQUIRED, and of those products, at least 50% of the engineers are gone within 5 years. It's sad, really.