Inconsistent culture - Senior Software Engineer I Autodesk Employee Review

3.0
16 Nov 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The acquired start-ups have cool cultures, very bottom-up style. Lots of great middle management people. Good work-life balance and benefits

Cons

Upper management seems disconnected from middle management and below. Some hostile cultures in certain organizations in the company. Work values and company culture is inconsistent. Pay is low and outdated but HR and compensation don't agree and refuse to use updated market research data. We've lost so many good engineers. Upper management is not great at addressing questions and concerns either. It's not clear how diversity and inclusion is done. The topic comes around a lot, but when recruiting, it's not clear how pipelines can improve diversity.

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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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