Good products, good folks, bloated process - Anonymous employee Autodesk Employee Review

4.0
18 Apr 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Was part of Autodesk Consulting, for which 95% of the team is virtual. The compensation and benefits are top notch.

Cons

Having come from a similar Professional Services team from a different company, found that the AC processes and procedures were very outdated and extremely manual. Takes six months just to learn how to do everything the Autodesk way. With the move to enterprise business agreements, Autodesk Consulting seems to be a back-office support organization following the lead of other groups. Be prepared for constant re-orgs and layoffs, some because of outside activist investors, others due to changes in direction, especially with Consulting (Autodesk is, and always will be, a product company).

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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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