Isn't Anagnost going to be replaced already? Growth has been flat for years. Bogus financial audit. Another 10-15% RIF?

Activist investor Starboard Value urged Autodesk's board to explore a CEO change and cost cuts on Tuesday, saying the design software maker has missed financial targets and underperformed the market for years under current leadership. The move is... — read more 

Maybe we could avoid layoffs and increase sales travel budgets if AD didn't squander millions of dollars on a divisive invitational football matches. Oh yeah and its not very environmentally friendly flying people from all over the world to this... — read more 

Autodesk's "unlimited" (discretionary) vacation is like having to negotiate with a doctor to grant vacation time when there are already 21 holidays (3 weeks)/year granted that include seven artificial holidays like Autodays, Recharge Day. Other... — read more 

January and February are coming up. Soon it will be time for Anagnost-ic to celebrate a 10-15% RIF of his comparatively low-paid "average" workers.

Is Andrew Anagnost well-aligned to support Autodesk's key priorities? Or is he Agnostic as his name suggests?

Didn't you want more? Like 5-15%? Anagnost is fairly agnostic about his decision - "we’re focused on ensuring that our resources remain well-aligned to support our key priorities for the coming year". Usual b.s. excuses.

The cuts amount to less than 2% of Autodesk’s global workforce, a company spokeswoman said. They are the product of aligning resources to pursue key priorities this fiscal year and not a result of over-hiring or cost-cutting, and Autodesk continues... — read more 

Does anyone know what groups are impacted?

Any idea if anything is coming down in Feb?

Will there be FAANG-style layoffs? Autodesk fell 34% in last year, but their comp is comparably very low to average compared to FAANG. So expenses are more manageable.

Autodesk just laid off their entire Client Services teams in Portland and Denver. San Rafael is next. All Client Services support will be done from Bangalore.

Are they laying off more M&E? Butchering more products?

A lot of execs departed in 2020. What about 2021? More layoffs?

Last quarter is approaching.

Any layoffs planned for this year?

Here it goes anyway... https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Autodesk-lays-off-108-employees-in-San-Francisco-12547181.php Dozens of San Francisco employees of Autodesk were laid off Friday, in line with the company’s previously announced... — read more 

If Auotodesk is laying off after "5% growth" it doesn't bode well does it? Or Is that 5% number just B.S.? I don't understand why any company would lay so many off while growing at 5%. Doesn't add up, something smells wrong here.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Autodesk-to-lay-off-1-150-as-company-restructures-12390210.php

Design-focused software firm Autodesk has announced a “restructuring plan” as the company looks to expedite its transition to the cloud and a “subscription-based business model.” As with many such “restructurings,” this means that Autodesk is laying... — read more 

Is it going to be as bad as 2016?

Autodesk seem to acquire companies on a regular basis, tell everyone everything is as normal and there will only be back office changes. DO NOT BELIEVE A WORD OUT OF THEIR LYING MOUTHS. They are slowly but surely systematically destroying the company... — read more 

Shanghai 3ds max team: all gone now. FBX in Singapore: all gone now. 3ds Max new render engine, ART: the sweden team is all gone now.

http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN-Report-for-7-1-2015-to-2-10-2016.pdf

No worries bro: "To be clear, the restructuring announced today is not related to anything we are seeing in the macro-economic environment. We ended fiscal 2016 on a high note with very strong fourth-quarter billings growth and continued demand for... — read more 

Really sorry for everybody affected. Internal communication so far is poor and full of corporate BS. Just watched a video of a senior VP talking for 10 minutes without saying anything. If anybody has more information about which teams and products... — read more 

I'm also part of the laid off group, after 26 years of service as a software developer there. I agree that things seem a bit messed up. I hope things work out for Autodesk, given all my coworkers and friends that are still left there... some very... — read more 

I wonder which products are affected - are those 900+ people across all segments of the company, or are they trimming down one area in particular?

What's worse, they just cut out entire products with their staff, thereby losing some of our best/longest-serving developers rather than taking the opportunity to be selective in who we kept. Our office's senior management had less than 12 hours... — read more 

The lunatics really have taken over the asylum. Carl Bass is doubling down on a commercially unproven product (Fusion) and pulling resources from all over the company to prop it up. This company is starting to look more and more like Yahoo.

15+ years of loyal service in product development groups. Honest severance package, but no real effort to keep you around, besides the "we encourage you to apply on open positions". The irony is that about a week ago, I was informed by another... — read more 

This has been the norm since Bass took over. When I was there 5 years ago we all knew there was a re-org every 12 a 18 months with layoffs becoming the norm. Prior to Bass taking the helm when we went through the dot com bust they executive team took... — read more 

Major job cuts, RIFs, layoffs are the norm now – everyone is used to it. You could be the best employee, but if you get caught in the politics, watch your back – you will be gone in no time. The politics at Autodesk are suffocating, it’s really bad... — read more 

I left in 2013 and now I hear that Autodesk might be cutting staff again. True?

10% were let go, it was a horrible year

Mark my words, internal info