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      SolidWorks

      Part of Dassault Systèmes

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      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

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Senior management

      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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

      Reviews by job title

      101 reviews
      2.0
      Dec 11, 2013

      Proceed with caution

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      People you work with are great

      Cons

      Top level management micro manages

      3.0
      Oct 18, 2013

      Stayed too long

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Modern office environment. Great cafeteria and free fitness facility. * CAD software is visual and exciting to work with. * Many smart colleagues to interact with. * Great about allowing employees to change jobs or careers. Many success stories of people doing that.

      Cons

      * Culture shifted dramatically in last few years. Founders left. Dassault Systemes started incessantly pushing their influence into every aspect of work life. * Move to Waltham, MA was a dreadful decision.

      4.0
      Aug 24, 2013

      Cool start to a career!

      Qa engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Smart coworkers, plenty of different interests. Company makes buckets of money and plenty splashes over the side to you - most of the time you live within your own means, but about a dozen times per year you're treated like a king. Good Pats/Sox/Celts tickets, great meals, all-company meetings where questions are welcome. You'll get what you think you need for your job almost all the time. Rapid turnover allows you to move jobs when you get bored.

      Cons

      Pay used to be great and no longer is - raises in-grade are small. About 1/3 of your friends will leave every year. Office environment used to be great, a real "round table" environment where the only change in offices between VP level and peasant level was an extra 60 square feet of open carpet. Now hardly anyone gets their own office or even cubicle. The building they moved to is too small. All of the founders have left. They were good at finding talent, so the company is still healthy, but it's now DS Solidworks, not SolidWorks Corp (primarily owned by DS). SolidWorks employees used to have unlimited decision-making authority - if you disagreed with someone's decision, you walked into their office and they either changed it or explained it. Now it all goes through France and takes a lot longer.

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