Ok, but micromanaged - Territory Sales Executive Autodesk Employee Review

2.0
14 Dec 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great offices, the SF offices are amazing work spaces. Good benefits, the sabbatical is a unique benefit. Stable job, by the standards of the least stable industry in the world anyway. The senior level management seems to be genuinely intent on making the company a great place to work. Interesting technologies and new concepts, fun to discuss the possibilities.

Cons

In the sales org, you are held to weekly call metrics and activity reporting. If you come from a consultative environment and are used to managing your own schedule, it feels like a step back. There is more micromanagement than you would expect, primarily for the benefit of the bureaucracy. The sales management comes from a PC software sales environment instead of enterprise solutions environment, so the management model follows. Understand what you are signing up for as they make it sound like you are going to a solution sales company in the interview process.... There are a lot of cliques among the people who have been in place for years. Not that they will be outwardly hostile to new hires, but you kind of feel like you are not a full fledged member of the club.

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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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