Great engineers, not so great management - Principal Software Engineer Autodesk Employee Review

4.0
19 Mar 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The products are very interesting, and the engineers are great, supportive people. Autodesk is trying to solve real world problems and make a difference. All the intentions are good. Work life balance depends on the team you work for, but is good in most cases. Working with teams in different time zones can be challenging, but you can use flex working hours to get things done during the day if you are expected to work at odd hours.

Cons

Sometimes projects are started that make no sense to the engineers. Any discussion on why it may not work out is ignored/suppressed/discouraged. Later, you find out that the project has failed because the people working on it are now doing something else. Projects fail very quietly and are swept under the carpet. No one at the executive level is held accountable for failed projects and no analysis is done to find out what happened. And this happens over and over again, causing loss of morale.

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Good WLB Low Turnover Rates Interesting Projects/Work Full Benefits + 401k

Cons

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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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