No focus, trying to keep up. - Product Marketing Autodesk Employee Review

3.0
May 15, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Very relaxed, great work-life balance (depends on which team you're in) - Good benefits, great office location in SF - Stock does well - Access to making things, learning new tools (if that's your shtick) - Gallery has Design Night which is cool to attend

Cons

- Don't join this place if you're young, ambitious and want to make a career in marketing - Compensation is below industry standard - Extremely product driven - Way too many products, no singularity on vision - Siloed culture, no one knows what the other is doing, ten people doing the same job - Everyone thinks they are an expert at marketing - Lack of new fresh ideas - most of the team is made up of folks who have been around the company for 10 years - Lack of innovation means less skills learnt - No budget invested on things that really count. Product has the last say. - Reorgs after reorgs, after reorgs. - Did I mention reorgs?

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Pros

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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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