Sharing my interview journey with Autodesk for those preparing!
Overall, it was a fun and fair process with a good mix of coding + design + behavioural conversations. I saw opening in Linkedin and applied in their website. After 2-3 days, recruiter called me over phone. The interview process took 3 weeks to complete. I have around 8 years of experience. All the interviews were virtual and happpened in Zoom.

📞 Round 0 — Recruiter Screening (Phone)

A short chat where we discussed salary expectations, role fit, and basic background. Smooth and straightforward. Then he sent me an email asking me to schedule my first round. I scheduled my round a week later.

🧑‍💻 Round 1 — Coding (CoderPad, 1 hour, 2 interviewers)

The round started with around 20 minutes of discussion about my role in my current company, what I built, challenges, and decisions I took.

Then we moved to two coding questions:

🧩 Q1 A classic LeetCode-medium-level stack problem. Took me around 10 minutes to solve.
🧩 Q2 Imagine a simple filesystem made of boxes-within-boxes. I solved it quickly with an iterative solution.The interviewer asked me to improve it and think recursively — but we ran out of time because they wanted to continue with more resume-project questions.

The final 15 minutes were again project discussions.

Result: Heard back a week later after follow up — cleared Round 1.

🏛️ Round 2 — System Design & Coding (60 mins, 3 interviewers)

This round had a good flow:

• Resume Q&A (10 mins)
• A few questions about my experience and projects.

🧱 System Design Portion (30 mins)

Two main discussions:
1️⃣ “How would you design & scale X?”
2️⃣ “Build X on AWS — what AWS components would you use and why you would use?”

💻 Coding (CoderPad again) (15 mins)
Two coding questions, both added upon Round 1's file-system question :

🧩 Q1 A variation of Round 1, Q2 that can be solved iteratively.
🧩 Q2 A little extension of the previous question. These were straightforward once you understand recursion + tree traversal. The interviewers were very helpful.

Result: I took the round of Friday and the following Monday, they emailed asking my availability for the Hiring Manager round.

👥 Round 3 — Behavioural + Hiring Manager (45 mins)

Very conversational.

We discussed:

• team culture
• how I collaborate
• decision-making style
• a few questions from my recent project
• how the team works internally
• No tricky questions, just understanding fit.

Left with a really good impression of the team. The next day recruiter reached out and informed me that they will extend me an offer.

🎯 Final Thoughts

• Honestly, each round felt fair and engaging.
• Autodesk’s interviewers were friendly and gave me enough space to think and talk.
• If you’re preparing:
  • practice recursion + trees + array manipulation
  • brush up on REST design
  • refresh your understanding of AWS building blocks
  • be ready to explain your projects you mentioned in your resume deeply
    Hope this helps someone preparing good luck! 🚀