good company, substandard salaries - Anonymous employee Autodesk Employee Review

3.0
Jul 11, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- work life balance, unless you end up working in some no-go teams, but in general a family friendly company - people are pretty good, approachable and smart. - good benefits and a 6 week sabbatical on top (if you hold on for 4 years)

Cons

- Salaries in engineering well below average. - Overall lack of expertise on strategic topics like cloud and scale primarily because of the company's roots as a desktop product company. - Politics often gets in the way, teams slow, very siloed - Strict rules hindering and limiting internal mobility. On switching teams usually cannot renegotiate compensation or otherwise. - Depends on teams but internal training is rare

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5.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

This company is amazing! When you start you get a decent sized home office stipend but the on going benefits are great as well, including but not limited to a monthly WiFi reimbursement, a yearly wellness reimbursement, the option to work from a foreign country for up to a month a year, stock options, and much more! Aside from that, all the people I’ve worked with thus far are so easy to get along with and everyone truly pulls their weight.

Cons

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2.0
Jun 12, 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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