Autodesk has announced a workforce reduction affecting approximately 9% of its employees, impacting around 1,350 positions across the company. The decision was communicated by President and CEO Andrew Anagnost in a message to employees, outlining the reasons behind the move and the company’s future plans .
According to the statement, the restructuring is part of Autodesk’s efforts to reshape its Go-to-Market organization, accelerate investments in artificial intelligence, platform development, and industry clouds, and strengthen business resilience amid global economic and regulatory shifts. Anagnost emphasized that the company is reallocating resources to improve customer satisfaction and overall productivity, while also maintaining its leadership in cloud and AI-driven solutions.
To read the announcement – visit the Autodesk blog.
Maybe they can now afford to add three more programmers to work on Max’s archaic ui and update their animation tools.
The other day i was using the loft tool only to remind myself that the floating tangent window it opens to add and scale the curve does not have a zoom out or in option and is left as is since the 90s.
Seriously i can get one programmer and fix all these UIs for less than 1000 usd and thats him working overtime for it.
Will it really budge the stocks if they put in a few dimes for this?
no, it means u will get lest updates and more champher fixes
Couldn’t agree more, the lack of quality control is quite frankly astounding.
Oh and one more thing, they will soon realise that all this ai talk and buzz is just that buzz for the investers, and that they will hit a long hard wall soon and lose billions in the process while the key issues stay unattended. Just like the VR days.. you guys remember those days? How the future was just around the corner until it wasn’t.
This and once more this. It still baffles me that the hype holds for so long…honestly it’s gonna be SOME hangover.
Users don’t want AI, just a few fixes and tools they’ve been asking for for years.
Why doesn’t Autodesk just increase subscription prices? At the current prices they are practically giving away their services. Even a small increase of $25 to $50/month could pay for all the AI improvements people have been dying for. Can you imagine how much better 3dsMax and Maya would be if they priced the subscriptions what they are worth?
there is no way this comment is real. I nearly fell from my chair laughing.
Lol! It was a fun post to write.
super funny, well done.
It has been twenty years in the main sections of dynamic animation fabric. What excuses the company is looking for power, and most of the time the company has been involved in what the company has made no effort. The next point of the purchased artificial intelligence program has virtually no special activity.
Investors invest in investors and the virtual money are created from the wonderland. WTF, how could this work in anyway? I saw on another website, that approximately 1,500 workers from 3ds max and Maya dev were fired. If this is true, I can’t imagine what these guys were doing there. I’m so sorry to say that, but I can’t imagine.
I highly doubt there were more than a dozen working hands on on max in the entire department. Including contractors here and there. Ofcourse I don’t know for sure. But as release evidence goes the entire update or patch work every year is equivalent to a group of two or three people.
Unless Autodesk is secretly cooking something in the basement we don’t know of.
So highly doubt hundreds were fired from the actual working team. Maybe they are from other departments, pr, marketing, management etc.
And this better be true because it is of even greater embarrassment to the company if they really did have hundreds working on Max or Maya and produced little to nothing.
If you join in beta community you will even think that have only 4 or 5 active devs.
“This decision was made by myself and CEO staff and is not the result of any third-party pressure. We long understood the need to drive more efficiency and focus following implementation of the New Buying Experience and we were always going to act on that need independently.”
what a bizarre aside. this is hilariously transparent. man things behind closed doors must be fun.
I remember an article from way back: “autodesk the metastasizing cancer of the 3d industry.”
kinda funny how more and more relevant it is becoming.
these companies are inherently and completely evil, and this is not a hyperbole. its simply the logical trajectory of publicly traded entities.
really happy I can simply laugh about this, not being an autodesk customer any more. dont want to trigger moderation, I also do wish anagnost and his ilk the worst possible things in life.
What is nine percent of their workforce? Like two people? There could not have been more than 20 people at Autodesk actually “working.”
(Just a joke. My best wishes to everyone who no longer has their job.)
Laughable cut and paste journalism, straight from Autodesk’s press release with no filter applied. The most important thing here is that the CEO and the top shareholders get rewarded, please remember that. No other software company has fleeced so many.
You may want to examine the prices over at The Foundry
Is it just me or do “workforce reduction” and “accelerate investments in …” not quite go together?
“workforce reduction” = more profit on paper when the shareholders look at those stats = value of shares up.
“Accelerated investments” = faster bonus pays and divident hand outs, with greater numbers earlier than usual.
I used ChatGPT to translate press release bullshit to plain english and that was exactly what the AI spit out. Just kidding. No “A” or a lot of “I” needed to understand it the way you described…
I have business advice for 3ds max team at Autodesk.
Tell your boss to tell the CEO that you are working on the next gen ai to be released with the next update. And you will need additional resources and manpower of maybe about 3 new hires ( drop in the ocean for massive gain in return) This ai will do the following:
1- One click animation workflow through layering system, you will be able to “layer” your animations this will immediately make any project with animation in Max 1000% faster through ” innovative under the hood ai algorythmic quantum processes”
2 – new ai driven user interface, polish all ui using ai scrolling and zoom functions, this will bring in new customers and those with disabilities to now use max easily.
3 – minor bonus update for long term subscrbers – ai driven chamfering.
I think this should work, maybe its been the language barrier all along between the managers and the devs. They just lack good leadership to understand all these interacacies.
lmao. This is a great piece of advice. Just include terms like ‘quantum’, ‘disability’, ‘1000% faster’, and ‘AI-driven UI’ in an impressive presentation with lots of green charts (yeah that Ferrari’s speedometer at full throttle), and every investor will be eye popped!
still 3ds max,s modeling tools are far better than blender,s so i just simply pirate it
did you try blender? i did. Its not perfect, but max modelling is not prefect, too. Its not up to date in so many cases. I still like max more, but i miss so blender features in max.
Oh no! With Autodesk moving to the AI thing (Autodesk Flow Studio), wich already have a blender plugin, I hope to see the autodesk logo on the blender’s webpage at Donate Section in Company Patron. LOL. Yeah I’m a dreamer.
that’s wild, Autodesk donates to blender , lets dream together
I guess the 9% should be the DEI department.