SolidWorks Reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(101 total reviews)
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Gian Paolo Bassi

74% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

SolidWorks has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 101 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SolidWorks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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101 reviews
2.0
27 Apr 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Well-funded, stable work environment. Flexible with remote work (depending on your manager). Good vacation/holiday time off. Good benefits offered. Nice new LEED Platinum office building. Occasional travel to Velizy, France.

Cons

Your compensation review will list, for example, a 16% increase in revenue and thousands of new customers.. and then they'll hand you a 2.5% raise and tell you they don't care that that doesn't cover inflation or increases in employee contribution to your benefits. This is a $4 billion company, but they'll cut your pay each year with that 2.5% raise. Management can be best described as disorganized and largely incompetent. Managers can lie to your face with witnesses and suffer no consequences, despite your having proof in writing of the lies. They will hire you to do one thing then tell you on your first day that you'll be doing something else (and in my case, that something else was the reason I had left my previous job.)

1.0
23 Apr 2015

A company that's lost its mojo

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Better than average 401K employer-match benefits (50% up to 8%), good health coverage plans, pretty nice modern new building in Waltham. (Most) People in Waltham are really friendly and great to work with. If working at a company that's the most recognized name in the CAD world and a stable, decent paying job without big ambitions, then you'll fit right in.

Cons

- No new investment in R&D staffing for last several years. - The V6/3DExperience based products are a disaster in many ways. Yet Management in Velizy and Waltham believes that's the future and keeps pouring good money after bad. - Competitive threats aren't taken seriously until it's too late (e.g. Grabcad, Onshape). - Management believes internal components and services are better than what's out there in the rest of the industry; a very myopic view. - When a threat becomes obvious, the responses are: denial, hand-wringing, acceptance, brainstorming and a "strategy du jour". - There is bipartisan split in the company : people who believe the V6/3DExperience products will be successful and those who do not. Very caustic work environment due to this split. - Any time someone from US/UK leaves the company, the headcount is pushed to outsource partner (3DPLM) in India. - There is no reinvestment into the flagship product line that is still making pretty much 99.9999% of the revenue, more than half of it in recurring revenues. That's a gravy train that's going to run out sooner or later. - Several key management people and the key R&D staff have departed in the last 3-4 years. They must have seen the writing on the wall. - SolidWorks has gone from being THE place to work in the CAD industry that attracted all the best and brightest to JABC (Just Another Big Company). - Every decision needs to be vetted by the higher ups in Velizy. Waltham is treated like just a branch office. - Compensation is not very competitive, especially in such a hot tech startup market like Cambridge/Boston area. - All this has resulted in a very low employee morale and a shocking drop in GPTW (Great Place To Work) survey results over the last 5-6 years.

2.0
19 Feb 2015

What a wonderful company this used to be

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people work at SolidWorks. There is work time flexibility and team based attitude.

Cons

Management has no idea what they are doing. The company is squeezing its customers for more money without more value. Prices will increase and value will decrease. It is becoming harder not to lie to customers. Dassault is really trying to push its expensive non-working software to SolidWorks customers

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