Great potential and mediocre management - Anonymous employee Autodesk Employee Review

3.0
20 Mar 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The general employee population is friendly and professional. Talented and capable people work across all departments with very few exceptions. The products are truly impressive and deliver exceptional value. Work-life balance is a genuine strength, with good remote work options. Compensation and benefits are competitive in the industry.

Cons

Management quality is inconsistent across the organization. Leadership development programs are limited to sales org only, which shows in how the company operates. Areas that suffer: hiring and promotion decisions, limited innovation capacity, lack of ambitious goals. The recent layoff process raised concerns when some valuable team members were let go with severance packages that didn't fully reflect their contributions or tenure. Communications about company values felt disconnected from actual implementation during the layoff.

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2.0
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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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