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Software Developer
Former Employee
Worked at Autodesk for 1 year
March 13, 2019
Toronto, Ontario
5.0
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Pros
  • A chance to work on complex engineering design products surrounded by experienced developers that have both a strong technical understanding of software development principles as well as the domain-specific knowledge for the product they are working on.

  • After working on a complex desktop application for 3D surface modeling here (in C++), I didn't want to go back to mobile development.

  • Solid mentorship from team members who were willing to spend extra time to allow me to gain insight into why things work a certain way (code architecture or even in C++).

  • My team was flexible and let me use my own dev environment and work the way I wanted to without micromanaging me.

  • My manager got me various things I requested (MacBook, software licenses, an extra monitor) and realized that improving the quality of my work environment would improve my productivity (and it did).

Cons
  • Full-time employees are generally older than in other tech companies (this might make you feel like you don't fit in).
  • This isn't actually a con to me, since I didn't feel this way, but others do.
  • Some of the other web-based internal projects aren't as interesting (I found my experience rewarding in part because I was working on a flagship product).

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