Flexible work, rigid structure - Anonymous employee Autodesk Employee Review

3.0
Aug 27, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

From a designer perspective, it's an environment where design has a strong voice, you don't have to fight for it as other tech companies. Flexible work hours, working from home, distance. Fancy and nicely located offices

Cons

No trajectory for career growth, especially if you are an individual contributor. Hard to output portfolio ready projects with too often changing directions. Distributed teams, clashing agendas, black box decision making.

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Good WLB Low Turnover Rates Interesting Projects/Work Full Benefits + 401k

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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