Autonomy Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy full-time for more than a year

Pros – Salary was decent ....but only because I came from one of many acquisitions.

Cons – NO direction
OVERBEARING micro management.
Weekly ridiculous SMS calls that are a waste of sales time.
Integration with HP....what integration?
Actual process to get a sales order booked is a complete disaster. I could run cross country faster.

Advice to Senior Management – Get over yourselves!! Start reading these reviews....do you see the stream of people leaving? Should tell you something....

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy full-time for more than a year

Pros – It has a good bonus scheme, and the people there were some of the nicest I've worked with.

Cons – Awful base salary. I've heard of people not getting raises there, but I managed to get one. That said, it wasn't a very good raise, and it took for me to leave the company to get it.
Awful management
Awful software development practice
No clear career routes
Sales driven, no care or pride taken in products created

Advice to Senior Management – Take some pride in the work you produce, and considering your a multi billion software company, get some proper software development practices hammered in to your employees!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good Colleagues had a few laughs

Cons – Management did not add any value and micro managed

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy

Pros – Plenty of things for you to work on.
Decent free foods - 1-2 times per week.

Cons – HP maybe taking over, but given HP executives did not run HP well, I doubt if they will run Autonomy any better.
No pay raise.
Very little benefits.
HP see Autonomy as the goose that laid the golden eggs, but this goose has cancer. I cannot list them all.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for more than a year

Pros – Christmas party, which they are plan on removing this year. Decent bonus, generally nice working environment. Free food on Fridays and drinks everyday

Cons – The management never seem to know what's going on down below. The only way to get a pay rise is to quit. The hard work pays off in the short tern, rarely in the long term. Difficult to advance due the the cosy management in place.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't break promises (raises, visa, travel). You are working you employees to death. Manage your projects better, quality not quantity.

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for less than a year

Pros – Becoming more HP like and customer centric

Cons – time of instability and uncertainty

Advice to Senior Management – Quicken the process to integrate

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Since the directors quit a couple of months ago things have got much better here. Plus the web filter that stopped us getting to a load of websites has gone and the dress code is casual at last.

But the best thing about being here is the rest of the dev team who are great guys and you learn loads from each other.

Cons – Though the former directors were the cause of most of the negativity here we could still probably do with some new ones so I hope someone's looking.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – New management really gets it. Things are starting to turn around, but there's a ways to go.

Cons – There are lots of challenges, and it will take a while to fix what is broken.

Advice to Senior Management – Let us have more access to HP's systems and infrastructure.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Autonomy full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - HP culture is getting through and we feel things are going to only get better
- More integration with HP personnel
- I feel less threatened by the firing culture, where every 6 months, people get fired for no apparent reason
- Stock bonus that was previously a mirage
- more hiring in my team that sometimes I think it's too much
- HP stock purchase program

Cons – We need SMS calls to go AWAY. The ones who wanted it are now gone. Come on people!

Advice to Senior Management – - The ones who needed advice are now gone. Just think and make things better before you guys get fired and lose your respect with others!
- Performance reviews anyone?

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Autonomy full-time for less than a year

Pros – - They hire college grads with potential
- Great people in the office. Really feel like you're in the trenches together.
- Smart people: you will learn a lot
- Great office with a great view.
- Fantastic initial compensation and benefits package
- If you get in with the right group, you're set for life (see con #1)

Cons – - If you don't get in with the main clique or if you anger/annoy any of them, you experience all of the following cons
- No career growth or development. You just get shuffled around with no direction to where they need people (usually the less glamorous teams)
- No positives on the horizon. One of the reasons I had left is that no one around me had seen raises, promotions, or bonuses of any kind for 5+ years.
- Culture is very negative. Very much a thought of "let's just suck it up and do this so we don't get yelled at" instead of "let's do this because it's good business"
- Non IDOL software is extremely buggy and bugs go unfixed for months unless support hammers into development.
- Accountability almost always comes back to support. An issue taken up with management goes to support. Issues in development come from customers to support, back to development, who tries to say that the customer is wrong even if support has verified the issue. Sales reps, on-site consultants, and more- all issues just keep coming back to support.
- Huge turnover. A lot of senior guys who hadn't seen any positives in years left, making it harder to learn or master the products. With only college grads coming in, it's hard to keep experts around.

All that said, it's possible this is all changing due to HP's takeover and executive level changes. So take this with a grain of salt. Make sure this is a job you really want to do before taking the offer or it will hurt your future career.

Advice to Senior Management – I'm aware that the transition to HP is changing things slowly so it may be getting better. But to any still there from Autonomy- good managers reward success, reprimand failure, and shield their team from flak from above. They don't pass the blame and cover their own hide.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend