Intuit Reviews

Pros

Great benefits package, work from home, lots of cheapo toys, employee stock purchase plan, and really great health care benefits.

Cons

Lots of politics. If you don't move up in the first six months you'll be deemed a loser. Many surprises at annual reviews with no opportunity for rebuttal. Upper management belong to the Slogan-of-the-Month Club. You are constantly told that your job is secure - until it gets sent overseas.

Advice to Senior Management

Pick people out at random to to speak to in private during on-site visits. The current system only lets you hear what mid-level managers want you to hear. Also, let Software Engineers and Support Engineers speak with each other freely.

Pros

Great place to learn what you are interested in learning.
Lots of opportunities if you are the right fit.
Great people to make friends.

Cons

Heavy office politics.
You need to know how to market yourself efficiently and move between projects and groups to stay afloat.

Advice to Senior Management

Enable even more knowledge sharing and reuse across org units.
Provide better and more transparent performance management and review/feedback mechanism.

Pros

competitive salary, internal opportunities, great benefits, volunteer opportunities

Cons

not much autonomy in the positions. lots of reorganizations - which seems to spend lots of money without improving things for the customer.

Advice to Senior Management

lead, don't manage

Pros

great people, great on-site services (there's a gym, a game room), extensive training initially and then additional training intermittently

Cons

poor work/life balance, poor communication across levels of the organization, frequent layoffs of whole departments, employees come and go frequently due to the nature of the business

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize that employees are not machines. Many people do great work and are recognized for it, but spending 8-10 hours taking call after call is very difficult - especially during busy season. I think something should be done so that some off the phone time can be available and rotated amongst people for projects or training. They try to do that now but it's impossible because they can never keep enough people on the floor.

Pros

The flexibility of working from home, and taking days off when need.

Cons

Communication and processes keep this department down. Again, management does not understand the concerns of it's team and it is VERY corporate. They have their ways of doing things which can take years to get things done. They think nothing is wrong with their company culture they don't take changes well.

Advice to Senior Management

Change all management and listen to the changes requested by your employees.

Pros

great people
interesting and challenging work
pay was less than what I have seen on this site

Cons

lack of work/life balance
lack of strong upper management decision making and communication

Advice to Senior Management

Practice work/life balance instead of preaching it. This is very uneven across teams/departments at Intuit

Pros

Pretty healthy focus on the people, except for career.
Work life balance and compensation
Experienced, mature leaders

Cons

Heavy at the top, many complacent leaders who are paid well, and not motivated to move.
very slow to move, change and just do.

Advice to Senior Management

Grow your people MUCH faster. Get the senior leaders out of the way. Hire people who will take action.

Pros

- work life balance
- enough time to manage your own side business
- Pay is competitive

Cons

- attitude is we can buy talent when we need to , there is no reason/need to grow people within the company; you are hired and when the job is done discarded
- only people that stay on do nothing other than snooze with mgmt
- extremely passive aggressive culture
- there is no accountability

Advice to Senior Management

Stop hiring from HP and hire some people unlike you to change up the culture. Seems like the people that caused the downfall of HP have moved to Intuit in droves to cause the same fate as HP.

Pros

Culture, Work/Life Balance, Pleasant working conditions

Cons

Large, established company somewhat hard to change like steering the Titanic but they are making efforts to be more responsive and entrepreneurial.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer a programmed advancement path for hard charges and/or those with interest.

Pros

Good work life balance, decent compensation, good opportunities to learn, opportunities and forums for new ideas, good teams that are generally non political

Cons

It is not really a technology company and that trend continues as the managers and leaders hire in their own likeness.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more people who can do things vs. tell the stories. There are enough of the latter. Too many directors and VPs.