Autodesk Employee Reviews for Senior Manager

What do you like about working at Autodesk?

"Great location, generally solid co-workers, and a TREMENDOUS opportunity in their market. But..."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be sure to spend a lot of time with your direct supervisor and get clear information on career paths (limited for UX), growth opportunities, training budgets (thin), long-term planning (rare) for your product area and how your job might change in the near future (it will)."

What don't you like about working at Autodesk?

"Zero design culture. Engineers rule the roost and the so-called UX designers are nothing of the sort, but more likely to be ex-architects, engineers or software developers. There is very little expertise in user-centric design, and even less support from executives for the true process of design. They TALK about it a lot, but they don't THINK or LIVE design. And with such weak leadership, they are merely continuing down their same old path of finding innovative small companies, buying them, then wrecking the spirit of the innovators they've just acquired."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire a high-level (CXO, VP) UX Design expert, guru, leader who can help to transform the culture from a non-design, non-user centric, dry and boring engineering world to one that actually makes products that solve customer problems in an innovative and remarkable way."