Great company...but avoid the education team (AEX) at all costs - Senior Manager Autodesk Employee Review

4.0
17 Jul 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A great company with some truly fantastic products. Also, some really good benefits and some fun people to work with.

Cons

There are small pockets of really toxic work environments, the education team is sadly one of those. After going through a lot of change as a company, there are a now lot of new people who aren't experienced in the industry, which means they don't understand the customer or what the customer does. It makes it very exhausting for people who do. The value of technical skills and understanding is constantly being eroded, with technical people being laid off in favor of 'generic' tech company workers.

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5.0
1 Jul 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This company is amazing! When you start you get a decent sized home office stipend but the on going benefits are great as well, including but not limited to a monthly WiFi reimbursement, a yearly wellness reimbursement, the option to work from a foreign country for up to a month a year, stock options, and much more! Aside from that, all the people I’ve worked with thus far are so easy to get along with and everyone truly pulls their weight.

Cons

Like any large company, there are occasional layoffs,

2.0
12 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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