I was an intern at what was formerly Discreet in Montreal during some layoffs in the mid-2000s. While profitable, we weren't hitting the magic 10% profit number and Autodesk decided that wasn't good enough.

People's lives were turned upside-down and dehumanized so that we could be a better part of a global 'portfolio' of these mid-sized acquisitions turned divisions. Transfers to other divisions or retraining weren't offered.

After that, I didn't want to go back. I went to work on Apple's video stack instead. Simply put, Autodesk is inhuman, and not in a malicious sense, they just don't consider human factors.