Autodesk reviews

Highly political. Too many useless meetings. In my organization, our non-technical program management group has taken over. They are hell bent on implementing Agile SCRUM as the solution to all of our problems, real and perceived. It is a sign of a lack of trust in the engineering team to get something done. To make matters worse, it isn't fixing much of anything but we pretend like it is working because politics. I worry some of our agile champions will migrate to other parts of the company after proclaiming success, like a cancer slowly spreading until we have 40 hours of meetings every week. Morale is down and many solid engineers openly daydream about leaving. The former co-CEO was considered an engineering guy and left - or was forced out - when he lost the CEO race. Current CEO is a nice guy but he was promoted from Chief Marketing Officer, further proving who calls the real shots at Autodesk. Hint: it's not the engineers anymore. I can only give my perspective. The internal Autodesk Pulse surveys show a workforce of mostly happy people. It's hard to reconcile the positive survey results with the general atmosphere of my group.

Beauracratic and political. Those that have managed to survive for a few years are preoccupied with continuing their own survival through the annual layoffs. New employees are thrown into the mix and their survival is directly related to the political skills of their manager. Middle management is incompetent. The company struggles to make decisions and then operationalize them before changing direction. In job postings this is described as a "dynamic work environment" That's an attempt to put a positive spin on what is in reality weak uninspired leadership. I was also surprised to find that they under pay.