Autodesk reviews

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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Apr 16, 2020

Terrible Toxic Work Environment

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Pros

Salary and benefits are ok. Some departments I heard had a good work environment.

Cons

Very toxic environment in some teams, especially in Finance. Several people left because of bad management and bad employee treatment. I have worked at multiple companies and this is the worst place. There are people who are there for 15-20 years, buddies with each other, with an attitude to know everything, supporting each other up even if not complement or qualified. People with terrible management skills manage people. You can’t complain to HR because they won’t do anything. I was constantly analyzed why I said this or that, and from day 1 I was told what areas I had to improve on. From day 1! It was very unwelcoming. Your confidence is killed from the very beginning. There was unclear and inconsistent management advice, lots of criticism, gossips, frequent drama and conflict.

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2.0
Jun 9, 2018

Interesting work ruined by politics

Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you're an engineer, there is some really interesting work you can do. You have access to technology that few people ever get to touch. The offices and perks are great as well

Cons

Political fights in upper management are destroying the company. As an engineer, expect to be told that everyone is working on some massive initiative across the company. Everyone will drop what they are doing to work on this initiative, and four months later there will be a re-org and you will throw out all the work you've done. You'll repeat this over and over, and each time management will tell you this re-org is different. Also expect layoffs almost every year around November, only for the laid off people to be replaced by acquisitions. Also expect your project to be killed and replaced by an acquisition that is also killed a year later. Just really don't expect to ever ship anything or accomplish anything.

3.0
Jun 6, 2018

Stagnant

Recommend
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Pros

Awesome, intelligent co-workers, frequent free food, overall pleasant atmosphere and work/life balance

Cons

Hard to advance career and management is a total fiasco, not a lot of job security due to lots of "restructuring" AKA huge layoffs (I believe 10% of the company was cut in early 2017 and another 5-ish% was cut at the end of 2017....), not a very high retention rate for people in my field at the company, I believe close to 85% of my team bailed within my first three months due to absolutely horrid new management that was brought on

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