Working at Autonomy in San Francisco, CA: 3 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in San Francisco, CA Area

"Autonomy is a grindingly horrible place to work. I thought the acquisition by HP would fix it but it actually made things worse. On the new CEOs first day she said The Autonomy acquisition is bad for HP and bad for HP shareholders but its too late to get out of it now. This is typical of the kind of corporate environment the average Joe at Autonomy lives under."

"ruthless"

What do you like about working at Autonomy?

"meaning base computer and search message and and it was fun learning about search"

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

"don't work there if you like your sanity, teamwork is non existent and deals will get stolen from you."

What don't you like about working at Autonomy?

"everything, crm system and management and technology that does not work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would NEVER work from any of them again. I don't understand if any of them would get a job outside of autonomy."

"None of the department managers seemed to like each other."

What do you like about working at Autonomy?

"I enjoyed working with most of the engineering team. Good benefits package. Free lunch on Fridays."

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

"The software manager will try to throw curve balls to see how the interviewee responds. As long as the interviewee keeps his composure and communicates ideas well."

What don't you like about working at Autonomy?

"Engineering team worked solo, no collaboration. High stress environment due to poor development structure and friction between Engineering and the services team."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Assign tasks that fit the engineers strengths. Implement an Agile development process. All departments should be working together, but this simply is not the case."