Good company but grad scheme is flawed - Graduate Technical Consultant Autodesk Employee Review

3.0
Jan 18, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Good work culture and benefits such as yearly £800 wellness allowance. Opportunities to do graduate rotations in whatever team you like if you ask for it.

Cons

The grad scheme is marketed as an opportunity to get your engineering career going with design & make projects. In reality, once you have finished the year of rotations there are almost no permanent roles available in this area. The focus is more on customer engaging roles such as content creation, QA, presenting & training, and the occasional customer visit. In the past, permanent roles for graduates could be created if you had an interest in a specific area, however this is no longer possible. Due to corporate goals, if any budget is released due to someone leaving, this budget is quickly moved to other areas. Therefore it is very difficult to progress your career if you would like to remain in a mechanical engineering type role. In order to be recognised within the company a lot of self-promotion is required.

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2.0
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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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