Autodesk reviews

Had a surreal experience working here. Started great and then they let my manager go and hired his subordinate to take over who was a narcissist with no management experience. He ended up working my team like a sweatshop. I blew the whistle, complained, spoke with HR all to no avail. They could not believe what I was saying was true. It was t until I was physically and mentally broken from the abuse of power of this man, that they realized what this man was doing, and they finally fired him. I was approved for Social Security Disability benefits thankfully, but this company had no compassion whatsoever. I had to hire an attorney to keep me employed and then to work out a severance package. Horrible experience.

Extremely political organization with a culture of "no" - rather than solution finding. There's an internal policy that current employees cannot apply for jobs at a higher grade-level than their current grade-this is a real policy confirmed verbally by HR. Mediocrity and ineptitude run rampant and are rewarded and direct communication and innovative thinking are penalized. People stay here so long (many 10-25 years), which contributes to complacency and fear of change. Promotions come to people based on time-served and age rather than meritocracy. No directors under the age of 40 and lack of diversity (of any kind) in leadership positions. Lack of diversity contributes to homogeneous group-think, fear of innovation and avoidance of new technology. Managers are more concerned with pleasing their managers than developing their staff and doing what's best for the company. Lots of lip-service from the top, but the way they incentivize middle-management, this vision will never be achieved.