Needs a management purge
Needs a management purge
Great benefits, some smart people, and some great teams to work with if you're lucky. It is an understanding company for a working parent. Cool legacy products and devoted customers!
Management has become horrific in some teams. There is no "holocracy" here!
Since managers can't lead and inspire by their vision and personality, in some teams managers are encouraged to tell their people in every 1-1 if they would hire them again.
This is from some "management guru" being brought in (at significant expense, I'm sure) to advise the Autodesk corporation on how to make a turnaround and become a more innovative company.
Regular intimidations of the programmers, in an attempt to appear modern and innovative, show a lack of integrity that seems to pervade the middle management at this company.
If you want real innovation, you need to inspire and free the individual contributors, not just push one top-down mandate after another that your slavish team of "yes men" directors and VPs promote for their own advancement.
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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaMarch 1, 2013It was seven rounds of interview conducted over 3 days. Face to Face and GD were popular and tough among them, and the final was the AMCAT exam, which helped to gain insight into the interview process at first.
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San Francisco, California, United StatesNovember 13, 2025Talked to the recruiter and hiring manager. The first one was about 30 minutes, and the second one was about an hour. Very professional process. The interview was easy, but there was not enough alignment.
Principal Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesJune 1, 2025The interview process involved a recruiter round, an HM round, and a technical screen round. This process was frustrating and very slow. I had to follow up with the recruiter and a scheduler at every stage. It took them 2-3 weeks to get back to me
