Autodesk reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,612 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 4,612 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
Sep 18, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not terrible hours, some very smart people, free snacks and coffee, occasionally have some cool events like design night that engages the public.

Cons

Lots of bureaucracy to get anything done. Lot of politics between groups. Company reorganizes more often than a teenager reorganizes her wardrobe. Terrible PTO policy.

3.0
Jun 23, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

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