Sinking ship - avoid - Marketing Autodesk Employee Review

2.0
Feb 1, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- relatively good work life balance - some offices are nice - pay is so so - overall mission and products are cool / have promise

Cons

- reorgs, reorgs, reorgs. My team is on our 4th director in 4 years. - disconnect between svps and the org - insane politics at director level - some petty and downright cruel VPs who appear to care little about the people who get things done - strange culture where we say we want radical collaboration but then leaders’ implicitly and explicitly direct teams to block other teams - in the us, a stingy vacation policy - sabbaticals are great but basically 2 weeks vacation in a year sucks. Directors and above get unlimited. - marketing org is aimless and old school

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