Good if you're an engineer, otherwise steer clear - Anonymous employee Autodesk Employee Review

2.0
27 Dec 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good benefits like sabbaticals and health insurance. Interesting projects and markets that keeps the company innovating. Pay is ok, could be better, could be worse.

Cons

If you're a business person, just skip over it and go to a real company. Their marketing and business leadership is inexperienced and about a decade behind every other company in the industry in terms of thought, sophistication, and knowledge. Most executives in the organization come from software or engineering and actually have no real non-Autodesk experience in their respective fields. It's also extremely difficult to be promoted or move around due to an inflexible culture, strange org structure, and lack of resources for you to own something.

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Cons

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2.0
12 June 2026
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Pros

The individual contributors, your peers you work with day in and day out are fantastic people! At the IC level, for the most part, it feels like everyone is in the fight together. The work/life balance is good depending on which business unit/team you're aligned with. The benefits are pretty solid, especially the 6 week sabbatical.

Cons

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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