• They are doing interesting work in the construction industry
• Salary for engineers is on the higher end of the spectrum in comparison to similar companies
• Recent shifts in upper management has created a lack of security and disconnect

The interview process for a software engineer at Autodesk takes about 2 weeks on average.

Stage 1: Phone screen with recruiter
Stage 2: Technical phone screen #1
The first technical interview focuses on basic CS knowledge of data structures and debugging skills. It is mostly verbal where the interviewers give questions/situations and the candidate is supposed to give the most optimized approach to solve them.
Stage 3: Technical phone screen #2
The second round focuses purely on algorithms with several programming questions in the span of 45 mins via Google docs. There is also a mix of behavioral questions and conversation about the company and culture fit.
Stage 4: Onsite interview, though this is sometimes skipped

There is no data about the interview process for a data scientist at Autodesk.

The interview process for a product/experience/UX UI designer at Autodesk takes around 4 weeks on average.

Stage 1: Phone screen with recruiter
Stage 2: Phone screen with hiring manager
Stage 3: Onsite interview
The onsite is around 4-5 hours long with a break. First is a portfolio presentation to 5 people on the team, then several 30-minute 1:1s with a combination of UX designers, visual designers, and researchers. One of the sessions is a whiteboarding exercise in which the candidate is given around 30 minutes to work through a design challenge. The final 1:1 is a wrap up with the hiring manager to answer any final questions about the company.

The interview process for a product manager at Autodesk takes about a month.

Stage 1: Phone screen with recruiter
Stage 2: Phone interview with hiring manager
Usually the questions are about the product and ways to improve it.
Stage 3: Onsite interview
The interviews are with HR, product management, product marketing, engineering and the VP.

• What OOP languages have you used?
• Experience with React? Experience with C++?
• Explain what is executed based on the given part of C++ code
• General OOP questions: interface, abstract classes, code refactoring
The basic C++ questions: virtual functions, the difference between new and malloc, and so on.
General data structure, algorithms and Big-O.
Technical questions related to resume projects
How do you code a calculator and debug it?
Questions about memory management in Java
Describe a hash table and tell the difference between an array and a list
What is the difference between a language like C++ and Javascript?
Designing grep command for log file.
Computing distance between two shapes [OOA design] and code for shapes (circle, square, rectangle)
Given a point (x,y), find the number of unique ways of getting to that point from your current position.
Why can ++i be faster than i++?
Find all couples that add to a number in an integer array
C++ questions on virtual, exception, overloading.
A problem-solving question on tree and sorting.
Questions on casting and error handling.
Software debugging techniques

• How do you approach solving difficult problems?
• How would you handle a situation in which you're presenting a design to stakeholders but are getting a lot of negative feedback and pushback on your solution?
• If given a design problem, how will you go about solving it?
• Design an interface for an employee vacation scheduler that solved a particular problem.
Talk generally about design approach and experience
Deliver wireframes for a redesign of a particular feature with business & user requirements and a few things they'd looked at as part of a competitive analysis. Time limit was about 90 minutes.
Talk about the most difficult situation you have had in the process of design. How did you deal with that?

• Do you have experience estimating and managing a project budget? If so, can you describe how you managed a project's cost?
• What does product management mean to you?
• Tell me about your current role?

Mission

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Vision

Our vision is to help people imagine, design, and create a better world.