A lot of room for improvements - BDR Autodesk Employee Review

3.0
Jul 18, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits package: very good private health insurance, above average food allowance. Good for a first sales experience: they give you space to develop your own sales strategy and recently more coaching sessions. Helpful and friendly colleagues. Big name on curriculum. LGBTQA+ Friendly

Cons

Commission structure changes every quarter, no stability in that regard and is perfect to demotivate sales people. Progress within the company is very slow, if you enter in an entry level job you will be stuck for quite some time to progress to a more senior sales role like account manager. There is a lot of mentioning of improving job roles and responsibilities but expect to wait for it endlessly. Middle management is more focused on reporting (pulling reports from salesforce) than actually developing people. More focus on KPI (callrate, call time) than actual value adding activities. HR is very sharky eg. Selling the job, salary negotiations and can even belittle you when going for a promotion. Be prepared to be your manager’s best friend if you want to get a minor yearly salary increase. Lately big turnover of people.

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2.0
Jun 12, 2026
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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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