Autodesk Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Autodesk?

"Autodesk creates cutting edge products and works with cutting edge customers. Each day can be exciting and the people that work there are fun to work with and to get to know."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Change is the norm at Autodesk. If you enjoy an environment that is very fluid, this is a great place to work."

What don't you like about working at Autodesk?

"It is a large corporation, so sometimes people get lost in the process."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Sometimes it would be good to give an idea a little time to take hold before changing directions."

What do you like about working at Autodesk?

"Without a doubt it has to be the culture and the people that come together to build cool technology"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself, and be ready to join a great bunch of people"

What don't you like about working at Autodesk?

"Hard to think of anything, company has an open door policy and everyone is heard if and when the make the approach"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If I was king for a day, step back and look at the big picture"

What do you like about working at Autodesk?

"It's collaborative yet autonomous at the same time so there is quite a bit of freedom to be creative at work."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You have to love change, be ok with making others look good, be a nice person that get things done and prefer a laid back culture to one that is like big brother."

What don't you like about working at Autodesk?

"It's a corporate job. By definition corporate jobs limit creativity, in the end do what's right for the bottom line and as such have the stakeholder's interest in mind and not the greater good."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"First try to be more inclusive, understand best practices but most of all be a transformational leader vs. old fashioned/old school."

What do you like about working at Autodesk?

"The company in general is a good place to work."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be very clear on duties and expectations. Get every agreement in writing."

What don't you like about working at Autodesk?

"The person I work for is terrible to try to please."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management should recognize what priorities are and proceed accordingly, instead or react at the last minute."

What do you like about working at Autodesk?

"very nice work life balance and flexibility is offered here"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"ask for more money in your offer as it won't go up much over time"

What don't you like about working at Autodesk?

"hard to figure out a way to make a larger contribution"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"make it easier for employees to make an impact that affects the bottom line"

What do you like about working at Autodesk?

"Working with different people, Which helps us to develop our personal abilities"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Understand the company well that will defently helps to perform well in the role."

What don't you like about working at Autodesk?

"Sometimes no encouragement, which makes employee feel down and wrong Manager."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire the right leaders. He will be the key person to develop a healthy team."

What do you like about working at Autodesk?

"Great location, generally solid co-workers, and a TREMENDOUS opportunity in their market. But..."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be sure to spend a lot of time with your direct supervisor and get clear information on career paths (limited for UX), growth opportunities, training budgets (thin), long-term planning (rare) for your product area and how your job might change in the near future (it will)."

What don't you like about working at Autodesk?

"Zero design culture. Engineers rule the roost and the so-called UX designers are nothing of the sort, but more likely to be ex-architects, engineers or software developers. There is very little expertise in user-centric design, and even less support from executives for the true process of design. They TALK about it a lot, but they don't THINK or LIVE design. And with such weak leadership, they are merely continuing down their same old path of finding innovative small companies, buying them, then wrecking the spirit of the innovators they've just acquired."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire a high-level (CXO, VP) UX Design expert, guru, leader who can help to transform the culture from a non-design, non-user centric, dry and boring engineering world to one that actually makes products that solve customer problems in an innovative and remarkable way."

"Successful software company, but no design culture. Ruled by engineers."

What do you like about working at Autodesk?

"Location in downtown San Francisco and general quality of employees."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you're an engineer or software developer, go for it. If you're a designer, be careful."

What don't you like about working at Autodesk?

"Lack of solid design culture, though they think they actually have one."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire a user experience expert at the VP level or higher. Replace most of your UX design management with people who actually have a design education and experience rather than self-taught product designers."

"Excellent experience."

What do you like about working at Autodesk?

"I like the company Culture and new initatives that are taken all the time."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself. You have to like changes and willing to take chances."

What don't you like about working at Autodesk?

"I don't like the location, San Rafael. It is far from everthing else."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If they can move to south bay or easy bay or to SF office."