Autodesk has a lot of potential but fails to live up to the hype - People Manager Autodesk Employee Review

2.0
Mar 28, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Work/life balance - Great people on the ground who care about their work and the people around them - Management can be good depending on your organization - We were well supported during the pandemic

Cons

- Constant re-organization of departments with little insights or transparency into how it impacts the teams getting moved around - Leadership above the people managers do not care about employees in any meaningful way - There is a lot of lip service from the C staff around valuing teams and people that does not translate into day-to-day life at Autodesk - People managers are not able to effectively reward team members who work hard - Promotions are slow to come, if at all - Lack of clear direction on how to grow and improve or move to a new team - Leadership is always turning over and with each new leader comes a change of direction which leaves employees feeling unsure of what we're actually doing - The company uses a lot of legacy software or overly customized software that can make simple tasks challenging to complete - Each purchase of a new company leads to splintered off business practices that don't integrate well with already existing systems and processes

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2.0
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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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