Great Place to Work - Culture is supportive and provides work/life balance - Anonymous employee Autodesk Employee Review

4.0
1 Apr 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

*Awesome culture, I feel allot of support for my success. Great work life balance. *Autodesk is a company where negativity and passive aggressiveness/being un-collaborative is not tolerated. Everyone is genuine and supportive of each other. *People are feeling more empowered to speak up when they see something is amiss. *Great benefits/pay is reasonable / employee learning and development is encouraged.

Cons

* On-boarding into the company is a bit challenging and can leave you feeling a bit like you need to figure things out yourself. Using the Intranet and asking lots of questions is encouraged. There are too many acronyms, it is a running joke, but has underlying truth. * Decisions can get bogged down in multiple reviews and approvals. *Longer tenured employees can be reluctant to bring up issues to colleagues/managers because this was seen as a negative in the past. Hard to break old habits.

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Pros

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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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