Intuit – “What's happened??? Everyone is too busy managing their "personal brand" !!!”

Pros

- Good pay
- Good benefits, espcially ESPP and 401(k) match
- Nice campus
- Some very good people

Cons

- Most ees are more busy "managing their personal brand" or giving feedback to others about how to imporve their brands... there's little focus on doing the work and growing the business!
- Cult - like environment with tons of jargon, focus on "framing" everything you say/write, and a crack-like addition to powerpoint ("creating a paper legacy!")... people are afraid to speak up and voice a dissenting opinion
- Super POLITICAL - it's who you know, not what you do that counts around here
- No innovation (except when it comes to creating acronymns)
- Unrealistic expectations for the acquisitions and their inexperienced leaders

Advice to Senior Management

- When necessary, reduce headcount based on PERFORMANCE ratings (what a novel idea, eh?), not throwing a dart at the org charts
- Stop the re-orgs! If you actually leave a leader in place for more than one business cycle, they might actually get some traction (or have to eat their own dog food, taking responsibility for their decisions)
- Everytime you re-org top leaders, the rank and file STOP what they're doing and wait to see which way the wind is now blowing... how can this shuffling be worth the loss of productivity????
- Get rid of top leaders that are all talk and no results