Join at your own peril. - Engineer Autodesk Employee Review

This place is wierd. Here are some of my observations about the folks at Massachusetts offices. There is a lot of talk and say about how they like to hire best people. But then when they get them, they do not know what to do with them or support them. Product managers who are actually good product managers, are given an additional responsibility of being people managers. Well guess what they suck at it! There is way too much of a focus on processes, politics and bonuses. That is why for years, this place has suffered from lack of innovation while Adobe's of the world have already gone to the cloud. They are way behind in cloud and use very old stacks where they actually are cloud based. These guys are just starting. Even small things such as build environments change 2-3 times because there are way too many chefs in the kitchen. There is way too much dependence on overseas teams for development who suck at software development. It is all about management (time,cost and resources) and less about leadership. It is no susprise that they are trying to reinvent themselves as a company, culture and business. The move to the new building later in the year is a huge indication of that. It is understood amongst the manager show have been brought in from mostly startups recently, that this move will cause "older/leecher" workforce to leave on its own and younger intern/junior engineers to join in hoards. Well if you are interviewing here, keep in mind: this is still a big company but influx. I would not advice joining if your are starting a career, albiet you will be paid well. Other folks, you know better!