On Wednesday morning, I woke up to the news of Autodesk restructuring, with approximately 13% of employees impacted worldwide. In my years at Autodesk I’ve been through this more than a few times, and it’s hard not to feel a little detached when you’re on a 6-month trip with your family. I decided to go into the Bangalore office, during the afternoon, to meet up with old friends and colleagues and to meet the team providing support for our development partners (whether dealing with programming questions or helping partners get their products into the App Store).
While in the office, I called into an All Hands call being held in the Neuchatel office – the timing just happened to work out, so I dialled in. During the call it was announced to employees that Autodesk had made the difficult decision to close our office in Neuchatel. Not being in the room it’s hard to judge people’s reaction to the news, although I’m pretty sure people were completely stunned, much as I…