Pros
Good snacks. Free food twice a week if you stand in line for 20 minutes. Located above a BART station.
Kontras
Highly political. Too many useless meetings. In my organization, our non-technical program management group has taken over. They are hell bent on implementing Agile SCRUM as the solution to all of our problems, real and perceived. It is a sign of a lack of trust in the engineering team to get something done. To make matters worse, it isn't fixing much of anything but we pretend like it is working because politics. I worry some of our agile champions will migrate to other parts of the company after proclaiming success, like a cancer slowly spreading until we have 40 hours of meetings every week. Morale is down and many solid engineers openly daydream about leaving. The former co-CEO was considered an engineering guy and left - or was forced out - when he lost the CEO race. Current CEO is a nice guy but he was promoted from Chief Marketing Officer, further proving who calls the real shots at Autodesk. Hint: it's not the engineers anymore. I can only give my perspective. The internal Autodesk Pulse surveys show a workforce of mostly happy people. It's hard to reconcile the positive survey results with the general atmosphere of my group.