Autodesk Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Autodesk full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Autodesk makes great products, and it's amazing to see how these products are used by their customers. The company culture is fun and provides an atmosphere for creativity in problem-solving, and there are many opportunities to challenge yourself and learn.

Cons – There is little opportunity for advancement.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the great work in encouraging personal leadership and creating a great company culture.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Autodesk as a contractor

Pros – Autodesk seems to really care about their people - both on a personal and professional level, and exercise high standards of quality. Although I was only there as a contractor, I had a lot of visibility into the career management of the employees on my team. They definitely had ongoing opportunity to advance and learn things. Also, there is a fairly flexible work schedule. People got vacation and time off when they needed it. More importantly, the general company culture is humane and non-crazy. As a contractor, I get to see inside a lot of enterprises, and Autodesk's culture is one of the best.

Cons – In my conversations with other contractors, the most common negative that I've heard about Autodesk is "they don't have any money nowadays". The perception is that Autodesk profits by acquiring smaller companies (whose solutions often don't scale) rather than through their own innovation. This does not bode well for their long term prospects.

Advice to Senior Management – You are a technology company and you've lost your edge. You need to either decide to coast on your size or recreate a culture of innovation starting today.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Autodesk full-time

Pros – What you work on directly impacts millions of customers. Software created at Autodesk is used by Engineers, Architects, Construction etc. Almost every you buy might have been designed or created using one of the Autodesk softwares. Great job satisfaction

Cons – Pay is not competitive with respect to the industry, though the benefits are great.

Advice to Senior Management – Great company! To retain good people, pay them well.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Autodesk full-time

Pros – Extremely intelligent, talented employees that are helpful to each other and work hard. Decent life/work balance (unless your team is geographically dispersed), nice office environment, flex time.

Cons – Extremely political. Vindictive and petty game-playing at the middle-management level. No room for advancement unless you participate in aforementioned game-playing. Constant company re-organizations. Lack of transparency about high-level decisions.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop interfering, monitoring, and micro-managing, and let the people just do their work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Autodesk full-time

Pros – Flexibility, work environment and location

Cons – Lot of people who have been in the company for over 10 years. There is a lot of senior saturation in the company with very few juniors. Very few people in the company understand cloud computing which is where the companies main future focus is.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the old and get some new people in.

Current Employee – been working at Autodesk full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Everyone is excited to be working at Autodesk

Cons – Although they claim to be a global company it's very West Coast centric

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Autodesk full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great people, love the benefits (including a 6 week sabbatical after 4 years), diverse solution portfolio which allows for many options to move within the company. Excellent technology, often best of breed in the industry.

Cons – Very political in nature, seemingly endless reorgs, and sometimes product development seems to take much longer than usual. Very siloed as a company which can be a challenge to get things done. Names change so much, with acronyms, there is an "Autodesk dictionary" to keep track.

Advice to Senior Management – Would like to see a much clearer employee development program, as well as a more fanatical approach to customer satisfaction.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Autodesk full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Autodesk is a global company with growing market share around the world. It has been consistently rated high in "best places to work" lists, and employees have a voice and are listened to by management. Experience and design are central to our mission, and there are opportunities in consumer-facing teams (iOS, Instructables) as well as professional markets (Architecture/Engineering, Product Design, Simulation) - there are even new groups working on 3D design tools for genetics and biotech.

Cons – Engineering-driven culture, but this is starting to change as cloud/social/mobile and "experience" play an increasing role in the company's goals.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Autodesk as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – They have a very flexible schedule, with ability to work remotely, required vacation time, a fair bit of contact with upper management, and they are constantly acquiring great and exciting companies!

Cons – Not many young people- they could do more university grads but great flexibility in the working environment and happy employees!

Advice to Senior Management – As with any big company, the upper management could always be more transparent and the process could be less bureaucratic, but I think they are working to be more clear.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Autodesk full-time

Pros – Great company for professional development, compensation and benefits. They clearly communicate goals and do best to help you achieve them.

Cons – Difficult to move to new position, horizontally or vertically.