IT Helpdesk Specialist position - IT Help Desk Specialist Autodesk Employee Review

4.0
May 12, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Able to work from home if sick - great food was provided to the One Market building - right off of the Embarcadero BART station to landmark and the other 2 buildings. - Beautiful view from this building, oversight on the bay bridge and ferry terminal - worked with smart people, engineers/ innovators/ acquirees - learned a lot here, I started here as an internship and was contracted afterward.

Cons

- Our team was let go for an overseas cheaper team. - Our manager only gave us a 2 week heads up - management was in San Rafael, so you had to reach out by VoIP or email - applying on the home taleo site was terrible, always received a denied email as a contract.

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2.0
Jun 12, 2026
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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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