“The grass isn't necessarily greener on the other side”

Pros:  “When I look at the reviews, I have a difficult time understanding some of the complaints. Pretty petty. As far as start-ups go, you will be hard pressed to find better…”

Cons:  “It's not perfect. With a new VP of Engineering on board, things have improved.” – Full Review

“A Great Group of People, Making A Big Difference”

Pros:  “OPOWER is executing very well on a tremendous opportunity to make a big difference in how we think about energy conservation in this country. Everyone is tightly focused on…”

Cons:  “The San Francisco office (new engineering practice being built) is a little isolated from the DC office (headquarters), but that should be mitigated as we gain…” – Full Review

“Account Executive”

Pros:  “Great company culture Reasonable quotas to attain Ability to work independently while getting enough help and feedback as you need The capability of moving up and getting…”

Cons:  “Tight work space and loud sales floor Unhealthy food and non catered lunch/dinner No 401k match” – Full Review

“Below-industry pay, salary changes after offers are signed, need I say more?”

Pros:  “Longer-term contracts, good team, good co-workers, interesting”

Cons:  “Offer letter signed, hourly rate negotiated, and then they attempted to reneg on the stated deal. NOT cool. Lowballed in the first place, negotiated up, and now…” – Full Review

“Good place to work for experienced professionals”

Pros:  “Flexible working environment Co-workers are friendly and nice.”

Cons:  “No bench system after you are layoff or your project/contract end Not much salary increases after annual review for last 2 years” – Full Review

“good to place to be”

Pros:  “A lot of work to be done and many options to help out so you're not stuck if you don't want to be”

Cons:  “growth can be seen as somewhat stagnant given the big growth in past years which has slowed down a bit” – Full Review

“great company to work for”

Pros:  “excellent room for growth, great benefits! excellent learning experience, able to work around your schedule!”

Cons:  “the turnover of managers at 1 particular site! the hiring of externs just because lack of staff and many are ignoring the patients as they gossip and talk on their…” – Full Review

“Great culture, and we help our customers design and create amazing things.”

Pros:  “Autodesk is a global company with growing market share around the world. It has been consistently rated high in "best places to work" lists, and employees have a voice and…”

Cons:  “Engineering-driven culture, but this is starting to change as cloud/social/mobile and "experience" play an increasing role in the company's goals.” – Full Review

“Challenging -- but sometimes frustrating”

Pros:  “Customers love us, we make awesome products and we get to solve technical challenges every day -- and the solution makes it into enterprise IT a couple of years later. The…”

Cons:  “Planning leaves something to be desired. Sometimes there's a lot of scrambling at the front end, and the tail end of the release.” – Full Review