Autodesk reviews

This is a good company whose products support many different aspects of modern society. Unfortunately, there is little to no accountability for how the work gets done or how leaders behave in the process. For example, in the communications department, bullying and intimidation is common. The leaders throw tantrums, yell, make public negative comments about employees and if they complain, they may be on the wrong end of covert intimidation. The most confusing thing is that this department reports up to human resources. This doesn't give the rest of us much hope that anything will be done if similar concerns are raised. If you happen to get a good manager then your experience at Autodesk might be a positive one, operative word being "if".

I have been laid off twice. Had managers changing every few months. During my second stint, it was all talk and no work. They spent more than 7 months to define team charter and then one day removed me without any feedback. If you are in an engineering role or bring some domain expertise, you could have a secure future here. If you're in one of the support roles, you will never know when you'll be removed... especially designers. UX Design is mostly afterthought here. There is no formal design review, no internal design community, no focus on a design system. Product managers mostly run the show and engineering complies. If you want to build significant influence within the company, you better not be in APAC. Decision making is mostly centralized around US.