Toxic workplace - Principal Software Engineer Autodesk Employee Review

1.0
Jul 2, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are adequate, office facilities are nice

Cons

Once a great place to work at, I have even considered to be as close to a family as a workplace can be, it recently became toxic. For almost a year it had become a common practice to blame an employee for literally everything, disregarding any specific circumstances or common sense. 3rd party service had a problem on their side whilst you were integrating with them? Doesn't matter - it's your fault. You have warned your manager about the consequences of certain actions, he insisted on it anyway, and things happened as you predicted? You guessed right - your fault. And there is nobody to complain to: your boss is always right because he's the boss. Eventually such behavior have lead to literal nervous breakdown with very real psychiatric diagnose. It will take me months or even years to recover from such experience. Stay away!

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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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