Autodesk reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,621 total reviews)
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Andrew Anagnost

79% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Autodesk has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,621 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Autodesk employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Sep 30, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers are passionate and civilized , good company benefits, working atmosphere is stimulating. Company has an excellent environmental policy, great and beautiful locations.

Cons

When employees are already putting a lot of hours, If the middle manager wants to look good, you might be under a lot of unnecessary stress. Difficult to control and talk about career path. Also, In recent years, work efficiency has improved but the technical services to employees did not scale, waiting too long and too much red tape for things to be setup correctly.

3.0
Sep 28, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Salaries seem to be pretty generous. Product suite is innovative and exciting, which made me proud to be a part of that growth. Surrounded by very smart and articulate people.

Cons

Job description was misleading. I felt pigeon holed when I got there, due to the extremely siloed and bureaucratic org. Lots of aggressive career climbers. Very colorful and creative office environment, but a very corporate culture in the end. No sense of sharing and community. And WAY too many meetings - most of the time with very little result.

3.0
Sep 25, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Autodesk has some of the best softwares in digital design. It is a laid back company and offers employees a lot of flexibility in terms of work hours. Working from home is widely accepted. The benefits offered are extremely generous, even to the laid off employees. They are investing a lot of money on what they think is the wave of the future, which for them is cloud based solution capabilities and PLM in engineering softwares.

Cons

1. The company gives only one earned day leave per month which can not be used ahead of time. 2. The company is bottom heavy and there are very few opportunities for advancement of career. 3. The people in the upper echelon gets promoted by being good at internal politics. 4. Some of the managers may not have a good understanding of the area they are trying to manage. 5. The company does not have a good understanding of simulation business but wants to be a simulation leader. Upper management does not even understand the difference between a convergent valid solution and a convergent garbage result when it comes to simulation and as a result they are pushing for low cost, snazzy looking simulation products for the future which would end up giving garbage results for any complicated simulation especially in FEA / multi-physics domain. 6. They want to be a leader in simulation product business and yet are aiming for those customers who may not quite understand the physics of simulation and could be made happy with any results regardless of the accuracy of it as long as their software produces a result.

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