Autodesk reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,611 total reviews)
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Andrew Anagnost

80% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Autodesk has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,611 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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1.0
Jul 26, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Tons of benefits and food thrown at you.

Cons

Autodesk is a hot mess. During the first few months of working there dozens of coworker admitted to having no idea what they were doing - zero fulfillment in their role, lack of structure and clear direction, too many internal meetings, zero idea how the sales compensation plan works and exactly how they get paid by it - and managment included in this and very open about having zero clue what they were doing or how anyone got paid exactly, but encouraged everyone to just keep doing it (whatever that means) to get promoted and move into the next role. This company has a million ways to communicate, which is actually making things worse, and yet has zero efficient structure or organization to anything. This is the most liberal company I’ve ever worked for. They throw all the benefits, food, perks and rainbows at you, but it feels so fake and empty there. They give you a false sense of inclusivity, that is unless you’re different and then you feel extremely unwelcome there. If you’re Christian, steer clear because your faith won’t matter here. During pride month the building was wrapped in giant rainbows, every door with glass had rainbow decals placed near the door handle, and every tv in the building was advertising gay pride month…why sexualize the workplace?? Posting rainbows around like that is actually slander against my religion too - but that doesn’t matter to you. Imagine if the building were wrapped in Jesus fish and every tv had an invite to Bible study on it… yeah, same. I’ve never worked for a company that felt like you’re just thrown into a heard of sleeping sheep going with the flow but not understanding a single thing they’re doing.

1.0
May 2, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Their products is superior to the competitors

Cons

The company preaches being so inclusive to all marginalized subgroups, that you feel like people in the majority subgroups are looked down upon if they don’t atone for their inalienable characteristics and beliefs

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Thank you for sharing your views with us. Autodesk has a Business and Ethics Hotline and we encourage anyone with questions or concerns to contact us through this hotline. You may contact the hotline by phone at 855-822-9535 or online at www.autodesk.ethicspoint.com.
1.0
May 22, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you want a job where it's easy to coast and get paid, come here. Standards are incredibly low here. Besides Autodesk, I've never been at a company where a project lead can ignore all correspondence for months and still be employed.

Cons

This primarily pertains to the Brand Content & Socially Media (BCSM), formerly known as Content Marketing & Social Media (CMSM) team. If you are interviewing with this team, run. "Leadership" (Leadership is in quotes because he is a leader only in title as the head of this team, he is not an actual leader by any means - I wouldn't trust him to lead a wildfire through California). Please join this team if any of the below apply to you: - If you want to work for a team led by someone who has no idea what he's doing and what he wants for the team. This team is led by someone who literally takes two years to change the team name from Content Marketing and Social Media to Brand Content and Social Media then back to Content Marketing and Social Media then again back to Brand Content and Social Media...first of all is a complete waste of time and resources but image trying to work on projects as he dilly dallies and changes his mind whenever he pleases. -If you want to work for a "leader" who says he cares about diversity and inclusion but has 4 people of color on a team of 25+ (to achieve this in the Bay Area is near impossible given the makeup of the city and the technology industry), has hired and promoted zero people of color over 2.5 years, has never attended a employee resource group meeting, and says to "just be happy" when a person of color voices concern about inclusivity for minorities on the team. -If you want to work for a "leader" who says he cares about team morale and his individual team members but cancels one on ones at the last minute 5 times before actually meeting and wishes his employee happy birthday on a card meant to congratulate said employee for the birth of a child. When the company survey shows that employee satisfaction on his team is way below average quarter over quarter for multiple years, instead of figuring out a way to address and fix the issue himself, he outsources to lower level employees on his team to create, lead, and implement solutions that, surprise surprise, never result in anything. The theme here is all talk, no walk. -If you want to work for a "leader" who asks his employees to cancel a paid corporate subscription to a project management system and create a new account with a fake gmail to save money from his budget when he works for a company that sells software subscriptions This portion applies to Autodesk as a whole: -Besides Andrew's sponsorship of the Autodesk Black Network, it's clear that most of leadership does not care about diversity and inclusion. There are supposedly initiatives in place to increase diversity and inclusion but nothing has really come of it. The company presented that they increased hiring of women and minorities by X% but when asked more detailed questions about how many of those women were women of color and how many of those positions were leadership positions, the team in charge responded that they can't provide that data.

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