Intuit – “Who is looking out for the employees these days?”

Pros

Awesome benefits & total compensation packages
The people are some of the best and brightest I have ever worked with
Passion for solving for the customer
Tons of diversity

Cons

With continual organizational/strategic changes, there is no sense of stability to many in the workforce
Continual lay-offs/restructuring without a true longer term vision of the workforce needs, leaves many of us fearful that great performance, solid skill-set, and commitment for the company is not enough to stay employeed
Career growth can be limiting, if you do not have a deep network of relationships already established
Continual changes in leadership and strategy...in the name of innovation, but I am not seeing any innovation actually making it to the marketplace, we seem more focused on acquireing innovation
seem to have lost the focus on the Intuit Values, one of thereasons many of us wanted to work here
Leadership development has all but disappeared in the last two years...I see front line leaders and mid-level managers struggling to meet the unclear deliverables from senior management with out any help/training/coaching to gain the skills/compentencies they need to succeed
Way too much jocking for position on the big enterprise level application programs...we need to be much more competive with the applications/processes that support our businesses, but we continue to allow these expensive programs spiral and underdeliver as the leaders work to keep their fiefdoms intact

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to what the employees have to say...I know many are scared to reveal the truth of how they are feeling, but a good manager should be able to find ways to make the environment safe for employees to speak their mind with out fear of impacting their job. Our employees understand what the core problems are and have great ideas on how to get the focus back to innovation and the customer if you listen and help them develop the skills they need to be part of the solutions