Has potential, terrible management and leadership - Anonymous employee Autodesk Employee Review

2.0
7 Aug 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Work life balance - good benefits and pay

Cons

- Finance organization is not a results driven organization and promotes based on perceived value and how upwards one communicates. - Distribution of work is not fair nor consistent across teams, and taking on additional responsibilities does not get recognized or acknowledged - Management lack the leadership and acumen to lead the company in the direction it needs to go and always seeming to be several steps behind - Too much politics, nothing ever gets done - Lacks innovation. High paying roles with little to no accountability promotes a workplace where people clock in and out and don't have the drive to innovate and compete - Incredibly inefficient but no one cares because they get paid well and has no pressure to change

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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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