Digital Insight Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – I was in the middle of changing job from Wall Street to Los Angeles local market when I got a very professional call from Intuit Mountain View recruiting group. After a 30 minute phone chat, they like my strong technical background and encouraged me to apply a full time senior position at Digital Insight - Intuit's acquisition in Los Angeles. They explained the benefit for full time position and told me a local recruiter will contact me.

Then, I was on the phone with a bright young technical manager then was invited onsite. The onsite interview was very formal and took entire day. Except the initial phone screener, all other onsite interviewers are just pure mediocre average skilled people. They focus on 'culture fit' more than tech. With 10+ years experience at Wall Street, I managed to convince them besides my strong tech skills, I don't have 'eagle' and wouldn't be a challenger to anyone. It's was one of the easiest but formal interview and I was pretty sure I'm getting 4.5/5 out of 5 from everyone. During the same time, I was interviewing with google mountain view, PIMCO Newport Beach, which all offered 1.5 - 2x average local pay ranges. Intuit's offer was at the bottom of the range. The reason I started the interview was purely because Intuit HQ recruiting team's initial great communication, they really impressed me.
After the interview, I got call from the local recruiting team. Since I didn't have job at the time of the interview (I quit the previous job and took a 3 month's break because of a 6-month fully paid deal when I left the previous Wall Street firm), the local manager somehow believed I was desperate looking for job and didn't have many choices; so they decide to change the original offer from a full time, full benefit with bonus pay position to 3/6 month 'contract to hire' temp job. I asked why this wasn't brought up before I started the process because I clearly mentioned that I was only interested in a full time job paying no less than 130K + bonus + full benefit. They told me the manager wanted to see if I'm capable of the work. So, there's extended 'interview' process. I told them I wasn't interested in job and took another higher deal the same day, they came back to me in a week and decided to offer fulltime position again. After I rejected the offer, they asked me how to help them getting a strong candidate... I told them that's simple, be honest, and understand there's never a tough job market for top skilled guys.

Now, I'm working from home at top tier pre-IPO company sitting on a generous employee equity plan. So happy about that Intuit local manager's bad judgement, which completely voided all the great works MT main office recruiters had done plus wasting people's time for interview. On the bright side, it worked out the best for me - "sometimes, you just get lucky."

(They are nice people, just not professional. From my interview, except the tech lead, all other managers are not qualified for the positions. I'm pretty sure no one cares because it's far from MT main office and there aren't many capable individuals in the area. That will explain why only mediocre folks are there. I won't be surprised to know if this location will be shutdown or sold. I strongly suggest senior folks don't apply this branch unless you really need a job temporarily.)