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4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,614 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 4,614 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
May 21, 2015

Join at your own peril.

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Pros

Salary is OK Bonus is good unless there is a food fight. Too laid back (leads to no innovation, se below)

Cons

This place is wierd. Here are some of my observations about the folks at Massachusetts offices. There is a lot of talk and say about how they like to hire best people. But then when they get them, they do not know what to do with them or support them. Product managers who are actually good product managers, are given an additional responsibility of being people managers. Well guess what they suck at it! There is way too much of a focus on processes, politics and bonuses. That is why for years, this place has suffered from lack of innovation while Adobe's of the world have already gone to the cloud. They are way behind in cloud and use very old stacks where they actually are cloud based. These guys are just starting. Even small things such as build environments change 2-3 times because there are way too many chefs in the kitchen. There is way too much dependence on overseas teams for development who suck at software development. It is all about management (time,cost and resources) and less about leadership. It is no susprise that they are trying to reinvent themselves as a company, culture and business. The move to the new building later in the year is a huge indication of that. It is understood amongst the manager show have been brought in from mostly startups recently, that this move will cause "older/leecher" workforce to leave on its own and younger intern/junior engineers to join in hoards. Well if you are interviewing here, keep in mind: this is still a big company but influx. I would not advice joining if your are starting a career, albiet you will be paid well. Other folks, you know better!

2.0
Mar 17, 2013
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Pros

Good smart people, trying to do their best Reasonable benefits but they have diminished over the years Flexible work hours in some areas of the business

Cons

Politics have taken over. The politically correct option overrules doing the right thing for the business, and the customer Technology and architecture takes a back seat to the manager's desire to manage up and make themselves look good The deep management structure makes it very difficult for technologists to get things done. The engineering teams sit idle waiting for management to dictate what or what not gets done Most of the management have lost their technology skills - yet they wont let anyone else make technology decisions. They protect their turf at all costs by playing politics with their team - unfortunately the technologists become scapegoats. Sadly, good technologists do not last very long, and leave for greener pastures.

1.0
Oct 17, 2025

Not worth it

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Pros

decent pay, they hire good people (to then mistreat them, but the coworkers are fun)

Cons

the entire ACC org is a mess, and only got worse the longer I was there Best decision I've made in my career was leaving this toxic place behind. Reminds me of a quote I saw, "if your company has a high turnover rate in the most unstable job market this generation has seen, your company is the problem"

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