Great company, with some caveats - Senior Software Engineer Autodesk Employee Review

4.0
Feb 19, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great culture. Most people I worked with were smart, kind and loved what they did - Solid compensation and benefits - For the most part, interesting and challenging work - Constant effort to improve though yearly survey and employee comittees

Cons

- Massive layoff every 2 years. Sometimes valuable team members would be cut with no explanation - Sometimes, there is too much focus on consensus. Decisions can take a long time to be made

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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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