Great place marred by a huge lack of morals at the top - Senior Software Engineer Autodesk Employee Review

3.0
May 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart, dedicated people. Direct managers care, or at most seem to. Above average benefits for the industry. Smart people. Great opportunity to advance to middle management. Above average work life balance. It would be the ideal place to work if not...

Cons

The people at the helm will gut engineering departments and replace them with engineers in Bangalore and/or Shanghai, or fresh out of school, to meet the bottom line and appease Wall Street. They've done it before, they'll do it again. Beware. If this company didn't own the DWG format they would have died decades ago. AutoCAD profit has allowed them to buy their way into other industries, and gobble up competition, and then over time release those engineers and replace them with cheaper talent either overseas or right from school. They have done this time and time again. It's a modern day form of corporate raiding. It is a terrible way to run a business, and it is a reason why they can't grow ANY software in house and have it succeed, outside of Autocad and it's verticals. Virtually all successful products beyond these have been ACQUIRED, and of those products, at least 50% of the engineers are gone within 5 years. It's sad, really.

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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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