Great benefits, but lip service to employee engagement and culture starting to bite. - Great Company - Going Through Cultural and Leadership Growing Pains Autodesk Employee Review

2.0
Mar 17, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, in general highly organized, excellent facilities, great training opportunities. Quality and dedication of co-workers generally extremely high. Flexible working hours and no stigma to working from home.

Cons

Challenging to get commitment to long term projects. Many legacy systems, new hires coming in from other high tech companies will find technology hasn't kept up with the times (they're working to fix this). Getting things accomplished requires getting the approval of many stakeholders - expect bureaucracy and for things to take much longer than in other companies. The company is very faction-driven through it's divisional structure - it's like 5 companies (more) rolled into one with each faction having it's own agenda. This creates significant internal politics. Recent attempts to change culture for the better are faltering - there seems to be a blind spot for managers who manage up well but have track records of managing down poorly, despite company focus and goals around improving employee engagement. That said, most Autodesk managers are excellent and supportive of subordinates. Where feasible, ask around and get insight on this before accepting a position.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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