Is Autodesk a good company to work for?

Autodesk has an overall rating of 4.0 out of 5, based on over 5,884 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months. 79% of employees would recommend working at Autodesk to a friend and 69% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Autodesk have been left by employees working as Software Engineering Intern , Territory Sales Representative and Intern .

Does Autodesk pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Autodesk employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Autodesk. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Autodesk?

79% of Autodesk employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Autodesk 4.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.1 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Autodesk?

Software Engineer (277) , Senior Software Engineer (194) , Software Developer (69) , Intern (68) , Product Manager (61) , Principal Software Engineer (59) , Project Manager (56) , Technical Support Specialist (56) , Senior Manager (55) , Program Manager (53) , Software Engineer(Internship) (53) , Director (52) , Sales (51) , Manager (49) , Customer Success Manager (45)

What are the pros of working at Autodesk according to real employee reviews?

"6 week paid sabbatical every 4 years is a great benefit and motivation to stay on long" ((in 564 reviews)); "The people at Autodesk were great and the work was extremely interesting." ((in 530 reviews)); "Supportive and good work life balance." ((in 515 reviews)); "Great peers and colleagues" ((in 140 reviews)); "Good Salary and Bonus every year" ((in 137 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Autodesk according to real employee reviews?

"bad management and too many re" ((in 165 reviews)); "bad managers (if you are unlucky) creating toxic working env" ((in 134 reviews)); "Bad managers and upper management are hard to get rid of." ((in 36 reviews)); "2. No job security .... if they don't want they will fired you with a short notice." ((in 28 reviews)); "Extreme favoritism puts people in leadership positions who haven't developed the necessary skills to lead effectively." ((in 12 reviews))

What are employees saying about Autodesk layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Autodesk layoffs and their outlook for job security at Autodesk in 2026.

What Autodesk locations have received the highest employee ratings?

Seattle , Irvine , Lake Oswego , Washington , New York , Pittsburgh , Portland , Los Angeles , Detroit , San Jose

Autodesk reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(4,609 total reviews)

Andrew Anagnost

80% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Culture & values

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Work/Life balance

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Career opportunities

3.5

Senior management

Autodesk has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,609 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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2.0

Jun 28, 2018

If you lack ambition, this is the place for you!

Marketing

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Friendly colleagues, convenient office locations, good work-life balance, never-ending opportunities for problems to solve, decent pay and benefits, ability to work from home on Fridays, employee stock purchase program and the San Rafael office allows dogs!

Cons

Extremely political organization with a culture of "no" - rather than solution finding. There's an internal policy that current employees cannot apply for jobs at a higher grade-level than their current grade-this is a real policy confirmed verbally by HR. Mediocrity and ineptitude run rampant and are rewarded and direct communication and innovative thinking are penalized. People stay here so long (many 10-25 years), which contributes to complacency and fear of change. Promotions come to people based on time-served and age rather than meritocracy. No directors under the age of 40 and lack of diversity (of any kind) in leadership positions. Lack of diversity contributes to homogeneous group-think, fear of innovation and avoidance of new technology. Managers are more concerned with pleasing their managers than developing their staff and doing what's best for the company. Lots of lip-service from the top, but the way they incentivize middle-management, this vision will never be achieved.

Autodesk Response

7y

Thank you very much for taking the time to share your feedback, we are so sorry to hear your experience with us. What you refer to is not our promotion policy so there seems to be a communication/education gap here on our part. We have many examples of employees being promoted but maybe we're not doing a great job celebrating all promotions. We’d love to learn more about your particular experience if you feel comfortable talking to us directly. This feedback is super helpful as we continue to grow as a company, thank you again for the candid feedback!

2.0

Jul 1, 2015

Avoid EIS

Software development engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay. Good benefits. Some interesting projects. Nice offices in San Francisco.

Cons

CIO and most senior leaders in EIS are empty suits. They don't understand current technologies and spend all day playing politics. They throw their people under the bus when they get in trouble. For example my apps team had a great leader who really changed things around here. He was technical and helped us to modernize everything from bringing in agile development to changing the languages and databases. He was the only member of CIO staff who had any real diversity on his leadership team. But the CIO decided to fire him because it was becoming obvious he was so much a better stronger leader. I actually asked the CIO what happened and got a political BS answer. Now we're going backwards at light speed and the CIO spends all day telling little stories and slogans and throwing people under the bus.

2.0

Feb 1, 2018

Sinking ship - avoid

Marketing

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- relatively good work life balance - some offices are nice - pay is so so - overall mission and products are cool / have promise

Cons

- reorgs, reorgs, reorgs. My team is on our 4th director in 4 years. - disconnect between svps and the org - insane politics at director level - some petty and downright cruel VPs who appear to care little about the people who get things done - strange culture where we say we want radical collaboration but then leaders’ implicitly and explicitly direct teams to block other teams - in the us, a stingy vacation policy - sabbaticals are great but basically 2 weeks vacation in a year sucks. Directors and above get unlimited. - marketing org is aimless and old school

Autodesk Response

8y

Thank you for sharing your post. We have many programs in place for ensuring we have a supportive workplace for anyone and everyone to thrive. We are always open to hearing feedback and if you want to share more about your particular situation, please feel free to contact the Ethics & Compliance Hotline: www.autodesk.ethicspoint.com or call 1-855-822-9535 so that we can discuss.

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