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4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(628 total reviews)
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Andrew Anagnost

79% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

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3.0
Jun 23, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

• The IDEA behind the company is invigorating. • Great energy. • Some great people. • Good locations (especially Pier 9). • Sometimes great companies are acquired. • Good benefits.

Cons

• No way to advance without spending decades in the company. • EVERYONE is concerned only about their well being. • Too many hypocrites. • Too many people who carry old thinking in a new age. This is unacceptable. • People who design products, are the same people who kill the said products. (Let's try this one one more time...?) • Overly complex approach to pretty much everything within the company, which reflects in all the products. • Too many "cooks" in the kitchen, for absolutely no good reason. They'd hire 10 mediocre people instead of a single good one. • Always hiring developers over designers, in turn overloading designers without having enough meaningful work for developers. • Multi-team, cross country/continent approach is constantly applied, but yields horrible outcomes. • No place for generalists. • Hacky, "good enough" approach, with virtually no attention to detail is present in all areas of the organization. • People are building products which they never use, again this has a direct correlation to how these products perform. • It's always easier to go out and buy a product, than to create one internally. The purchased product becomes bloated, unsuccessful, and eventually dies within 3-5 years of purchase; people are fired. • Facilities people are horrible for the most part. You'll come into the office only to find that everything has been rearranged for you in your work space/desk - thanks, but no thanks. • Don't bother with HR, they are useless over here. A bunch of sloths, too. • Constant moves/re-orgs are super annoying. Shows there is no future-proofing, and no plan. • "This is above my pay grade" is something you will hear quite often. • These guys don't know how to throw parties.

3.0
Jun 13, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Well-placed in market. Progressively moving to cloud and toward subscription. Good compensation package including annual bonus and sabbatical every 4 years.

Cons

Autodesk is, under the covers, many disparate teams -- some of which treat their employees better than others. Because Autodesk has grown through acquisitions, teams remain siloed, and coordinating across teams can be difficult. Further, Autodesk does periodic, and sometimes arbitrary, layoffs -- cutting teams, roles, even whole offices -- this can breed dissatisfaction and disloyalty.

4.0
Jun 5, 2017

Sr. Finance Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible working environment, great products, newly renovated office, good results in recently business transformation to cloud, etc.

Cons

Not enough opportunity internal promotion, salary /benefit is reasonable but not top of the industry.

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