Autonomy Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The job provides a decent lifestyle and interesting challenging work. Awesome people that hold the teams together.

Cons – I don't have anything particularly new to say compared to the present reviews. I can see truth in most of the issues raise, but wonder if it's really that different to other companies.

Advice to Senior Management – Looking forward to see what magic HP can bring. I am very hopeful that Meg Whitman sees the challenge of transforming the business from ones that driven by sales to one that driven by customer (and hopefully employee) satisfaction.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy full-time for more than a year

Pros – the people and culture are great

Cons – rewards and lack of performance reviews

Advice to Senior Management – performance reviews

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice perks such as Spurs tickets and awesome Christmas parties.

Cons – Massive favouritism, steady increase of targets and workload with no recompense at all, incompetant commissions staff consistently making errors and then the company fails to rectify mistakes, policy of zero pay rise even to mirror inflation, company is run through a culture of fear.

Advice to Senior Management – Nurture your staff, don't belittle them into being better. Increase targets by all means, but reward this extra work financially. Mistakes happen with regards to commissions, fair enough, but rectify these immediately instead of forcing financial hardship on your staff.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice offices on St James. You too can have a fumble where the queen mum used to get jiggy.

Cons – They support chav sports. A lot of hot air at best, aurasma producing is the norn.

Advice to Senior Management – the most senior have gone, but the real trash are still there. the training guy is basically lower than a suicide bomber..

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – None
No good benefits
No commendations

Cons – Senior skilled employees are treated as fresh graduates And paid peanuts

Advice to Senior Management – Be generous and reward your best employees and you may be able to retain them

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy full-time for more than a year

Pros – Salary was decent ....but only because I came from one of many acquisitions.

Cons – NO direction
OVERBEARING micro management.
Weekly ridiculous SMS calls that are a waste of sales time.
Integration with HP....what integration?
Actual process to get a sales order booked is a complete disaster. I could run cross country faster.

Advice to Senior Management – Get over yourselves!! Start reading these reviews....do you see the stream of people leaving? Should tell you something....

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy full-time for more than a year

Pros – It has a good bonus scheme, and the people there were some of the nicest I've worked with.

Cons – Awful base salary. I've heard of people not getting raises there, but I managed to get one. That said, it wasn't a very good raise, and it took for me to leave the company to get it.
Awful management
Awful software development practice
No clear career routes
Sales driven, no care or pride taken in products created

Advice to Senior Management – Take some pride in the work you produce, and considering your a multi billion software company, get some proper software development practices hammered in to your employees!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good Colleagues had a few laughs

Cons – Management did not add any value and micro managed

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy

Pros – Plenty of things for you to work on.
Decent free foods - 1-2 times per week.

Cons – HP maybe taking over, but given HP executives did not run HP well, I doubt if they will run Autonomy any better.
No pay raise.
Very little benefits.
HP see Autonomy as the goose that laid the golden eggs, but this goose has cancer. I cannot list them all.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for more than a year

Pros – Christmas party, which they are plan on removing this year. Decent bonus, generally nice working environment. Free food on Fridays and drinks everyday

Cons – The management never seem to know what's going on down below. The only way to get a pay rise is to quit. The hard work pays off in the short tern, rarely in the long term. Difficult to advance due the the cosy management in place.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't break promises (raises, visa, travel). You are working you employees to death. Manage your projects better, quality not quantity.