Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Autodesk with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 59% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 35 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Autodesk overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Autodesk as a Senior Software Engineer according to 35 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 23%
Phone interview: 21%
Skills test: 20%
Group panel interview: 13%
Presentation: 8%
Background check: 7%
Personality test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Autodesk (Singapore)
Interview
First, I had an interview with the hiring manager to discuss my past experience and profile.
Second, there was a live coding round in Java to implement a data structure.
Third, I had a system design interview focused on distributed systems.
All rounds went reasonably well, but I did not hear back from HR for several weeks. After multiple follow-ups, they eventually informed me that they had selected another candidate for the role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Linked list data structure and its implementation and operations
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Autodesk (Montreal, QC) in Nov 2025
Interview
First interview is with the hr, second interview is Behavioral, they would ask you about projects that you did, third interview is a coding interview where there is a code to refactor, I was tested on data structures, multi-threading, code optimization and performance benchmarking.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would you use as a data structure instead
How to make these methods and variables thread-safe
Rewrite the code in a more modern way
I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Autodesk in Sep 2025
Interview
I experienced a very unprofessional interview, during one hour interview, the interviewers didn't ask me any professional questions related the homework, even give me some wrong feedback about my homework, for example, I made a login endpoint to help finish the assignment and use a json body to pass the user name and password, reply with a login Token, they don't know what's the difference between the password and login token and told me I should pass the token in the request json body.