Autodesk reviews

The people at the helm will gut engineering departments and replace them with engineers in Bangalore and/or Shanghai, or fresh out of school, to meet the bottom line and appease Wall Street. They've done it before, they'll do it again. Beware. If this company didn't own the DWG format they would have died decades ago. AutoCAD profit has allowed them to buy their way into other industries, and gobble up competition, and then over time release those engineers and replace them with cheaper talent either overseas or right from school. They have done this time and time again. It's a modern day form of corporate raiding. It is a terrible way to run a business, and it is a reason why they can't grow ANY software in house and have it succeed, outside of Autocad and it's verticals. Virtually all successful products beyond these have been ACQUIRED, and of those products, at least 50% of the engineers are gone within 5 years. It's sad, really.

I worked in this hell because they bought our startup and had to wait for them to vest. No career path in the ACS division, we all know the sales team will get diluted and channel parters will take the jobs. That’s what Autodesk does best. Buy startups and spit out the people working in them in small increments so they never make the news. The culture is bad, as they like to talk about diversity but don’t higher them cause apparently management doesn’t know how to interview them. Fact ! Comment I got when asked. I finally quit, and the HR proved me right that this company doesn’t care. Kati, worst HR . Who kept on getting defensive when I was trying to explain my side and why I quit. Sexism and no ownership of the management. If they are not hitting their target, they will though you under the bus. If you are reading this and on the fence of quitting, do it now. It’s scary but it’s not worth your mental health.