Autodesk reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(4,607 total reviews)
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Andrew Anagnost

80% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Autodesk has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,607 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Sep 18, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The Chinese development office in Shanghai is rapidly expanding and this offers potential for career growth.

Cons

The opportunities for career growth are not balanced with compensation nor with realistic expectations from their overseas employees. For example: As a global company, meetings are scheduled across time zones. This is normal; however, meetings are frequently scheduled at absurd times, such as 4am or 1am on Saturday night. Software development life cycles are too aggressive because Chinese managers can't say no (and lose face) to their American or European boss. The human resources department is nearly useless. The HR Director is literally never available. She was given the job because she's friends with the Chinese operation manager, not because she's competent. The result is that standard HR requests, such as reimbursement for health care, go unanswered. Why does senior management allow this to happen? Because they're clueless (or don't care) about the operations in Shanghai.

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
Business Outlook

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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