Pros
If you want a job where it's easy to coast and get paid, come here. Standards are incredibly low here. Besides Autodesk, I've never been at a company where a project lead can ignore all correspondence for months and still be employed.
Cons
This primarily pertains to the Brand Content & Socially Media (BCSM), formerly known as Content Marketing & Social Media (CMSM) team. If you are interviewing with this team, run. "Leadership" (Leadership is in quotes because he is a leader only in title as the head of this team, he is not an actual leader by any means - I wouldn't trust him to lead a wildfire through California). Please join this team if any of the below apply to you: - If you want to work for a team led by someone who has no idea what he's doing and what he wants for the team. This team is led by someone who literally takes two years to change the team name from Content Marketing and Social Media to Brand Content and Social Media then back to Content Marketing and Social Media then again back to Brand Content and Social Media...first of all is a complete waste of time and resources but image trying to work on projects as he dilly dallies and changes his mind whenever he pleases. -If you want to work for a "leader" who says he cares about diversity and inclusion but has 4 people of color on a team of 25+ (to achieve this in the Bay Area is near impossible given the makeup of the city and the technology industry), has hired and promoted zero people of color over 2.5 years, has never attended a employee resource group meeting, and says to "just be happy" when a person of color voices concern about inclusivity for minorities on the team. -If you want to work for a "leader" who says he cares about team morale and his individual team members but cancels one on ones at the last minute 5 times before actually meeting and wishes his employee happy birthday on a card meant to congratulate said employee for the birth of a child. When the company survey shows that employee satisfaction on his team is way below average quarter over quarter for multiple years, instead of figuring out a way to address and fix the issue himself, he outsources to lower level employees on his team to create, lead, and implement solutions that, surprise surprise, never result in anything. The theme here is all talk, no walk. -If you want to work for a "leader" who asks his employees to cancel a paid corporate subscription to a project management system and create a new account with a fake gmail to save money from his budget when he works for a company that sells software subscriptions This portion applies to Autodesk as a whole: -Besides Andrew's sponsorship of the Autodesk Black Network, it's clear that most of leadership does not care about diversity and inclusion. There are supposedly initiatives in place to increase diversity and inclusion but nothing has really come of it. The company presented that they increased hiring of women and minorities by X% but when asked more detailed questions about how many of those women were women of color and how many of those positions were leadership positions, the team in charge responded that they can't provide that data.