Autodesk

ESPP program. Employee leadership program which prepared you for teamwork. Reasonably equipped offices. Good hardware available to developers. Good teamwork.

Making the Autodesk software cloud-dependent (SaaS, similar to the Adobe model) meant the loss of many traditional customers. This created a pressure environment on the employee side and necessitated a large restructuring of the company.

During the restructuring, the software company reacted by laying off large groups of its software developers, regardless of their performance. In 2018, Autodesk laid off 1150 people, mostly in software developer roles, because the product was finished and the company required the money for marketing. This happened in addition to the semi-regular 5-10% layoffs.