Intuit Reviews in Los Angeles, CA Area

Pros

Intuit has wonderful benefits and it is a very good place for technology innovation and growth.

Cons

Sometimes growth comes at a cost, and rapid growth has a greater degree of pain involved.

Advice to Senior Management

- The management at Intuit is fair (to we employees), and I feel they are very competent.
- I find that we have teams that want to engage, yet they remain silo'd; information is not forthcoming in time to head off some problems. I work on the delivery end of our incredible product suite, and I encounter many situations in which I have to react to a lack of knowledge involving a new product, or to a missing process.
- Rapid development and growth with our products is the major push and extremely important; we do this very well. However, the maintenance aspects and processes need to be shored up.

Pros

Great Benefits, good Pay, great Training

Cons

Inexperience of Middle Management Gruop

Advice to Senior Management

They need to get some management training

Pros

Management seeks feedback to determine direction. Frequent all hands meetings to keep us informed and motivated

Cons

Security Management fears owning outcome; very indecisive, despite DACI and shared vision. Too eager to re-direct ownership issues.

Advice to Senior Management

Own the outcome

Pros

Great benefits
Nice people
Unlimited training available
Team-oriented
Strategic

Cons

"Balance work life" is lip service
Layoff potential is pervasive all the time
Management lacks leadership
The company's priorities are stock price first, shareholders second, executive promotions/ bonuses third, and then employee layoffs.

Advice to Senior Management

Corporate executives will run out of quality, productive employees if they continue to burn out the ones they have just as they burned through all the productive employees they had in the past with neverending layoffs. At some point, its only a matter of time that the quality of your products and customer service will diminish as will your customer loyalty and stock price.

Pros

people, benefit, work, career growth

Cons

competitions, locations, is too far

Pros

benefits are ok, work-life balance is fair overall (not for all departments nor employees though). it has relatively diverse work force.

Cons

culture and values is overemphasized. at times it feels like a cult, but is mostly the same old stuff recycled and repackaged that makes employees cynical. not much career mobility and good talent leaves.

Advice to Senior Management

do what you say and say what you mean. reshuffling the same incompetent leaders and repackaging old idea as new will not transform the company into an innovative one.

Pros

Lots of gained knowledge of industry practices and many functions in job.

Cons

Very demanding. Work schedule not friendly. Work on Saturdays and many Holidays.

Advice to Senior Management

Better scheduling.

Pros

Compensation is good (Not excellent)
Re-energizes staff after all hands meeting.
Higher executive team have understanding and good messeage.

Cons

- Information/control to next level management is lacking.
- No definitve plan after acuisiions - how to integrate ... All departments work differently and go in different direction.
- Middle tier management is not effective and doesn't have any clue what is happening. or have any control.
- Too many re-org kills the spirit and hinders on plan set by previous manager.
frequent Lay-offs creates fear in emplyees. do it once may once a year .. not multiple times or department by department.

Advice to Senior Management

- Middle tier management needs to be smart and deliver.
- Less re-org ... Otherwise message coming across the higher management cannot make up mind what is plan for whole year.
- Frequent Lay-offs creates fear in employees. do it once may be once a year .. not multiple times or department by department.
- If you have plan after Acquisition act on it and hold manager responsible for not acting on it.

Pros

Intuit's overall strategy and business plan for next couple of years to come is progressing and aliging with where the growth is going to come from in the economy (now and when it turns).

Cons

Intuit has experienced many changes over the last fiscal year. Changes have taken place in leadership, strategy and direction. Many of these changes have been positive and some have been reactionary.

Advice to Senior Management

My advice to management would be to continue innovating and positioning the company in a place that puts us at the top, particularly at the turn of the economy.

Pros

Health benefits and 401k are excellent.

Cons

"Intuit is doing this" and "Intuit is doing that" on company website means "Mountain View is doing this" and "Mountain View is doing that". Other units are frequently left out in the cold.

Advice to Senior Management

Former IMS management is stuck in old ways. Joe doesn't run the company any more, guys. There are other ways to do things. Better, even.