Great work-life balance, but not many opportunities for career growth - Product Designer Autodesk Employee Review

2.0
Jul 6, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

- Coworkers (individual contributors) are a joy to work with. They are intelligent, understanding, and helpful. - Autodesk encourages a healthy work-life balance. Office hours are flexible, and as long as you fulfill your responsibilities on time, you are rarely questioned about how much time you spend at work. - Working from home as frequently as one day a week is an accepted norm. - Autodesk provides great health benefits. - All employees are eligible for a 6 week sabbatical (paid time off) every 4 years.

Cons

- Base salaries are less than competitor salaries. - The senior management is not very open about their immediate plans, long-term vision, or anything in-between. The management, in general, tends to have a secretive approach about everything. - Opportunities for promotion, leadership, knowledge growth or general career development are few and far between.

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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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