Intuit Reviews in Mountain View, CA

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

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.

Pros

I have been at Intuit for a very long time and highly recommend it! They are very family-oriented and work life balance is truly practiced here. Great opportunities for internal mobility too.

Cons

It's a large company with many processes which can slow things down. VERY team oriented and collaborative and some people prefer to be heads down.

Advice to Senior Management

Find ways to make Intuit "sexier" to work for.

Pros

Great culture, supportive of work-life balance, transforming itself into an innovative company. Feel like there are great people here.

Cons

Probably not as well compensated as other tech co's in the area
Certain career advancement seems difficult (from Prod Mgr to Sr Prod Mgr)
Slow compared to startups

Pros

- Good work life balance
- Experimentation Culture
- Moderate Risk Taking

Cons

- Too many employees have been there for too long...stalling innovation
- Mgmt is thin on those who understand technology
- Limited view of the global market - still only see the us market for growth, doesn't make sense...

Advice to Senior Management

Get real about the type of leadership you need for the next phase of growth

Pros

Work Culture.Laid back attitude. Flexible workplace

Cons

Not much communication higher up.

Pros

Great at working with employees to maintain work-life balance.
Great Benefits.
Great people.

Cons

Salary - Left the company and discovered that I could make upwards of 20% more with a different company.
Leadership is poor, especially at the Senior Manager and Director level.
Management is not transparent with information to employees, although they profess to be.
Management says one thing, and does the opposite.

Advice to Senior Management

Practice what you preach....really.

Pros

Great people to work for.

Cons

The development team seemed to consist of too many engineers.

Pros

Intuit has good company values.

Cons

Politics in some of the groups.

Advice to Senior Management

More focus on technical aspects would be great

Pros

Investment in leadership development (workshops, coaching, etc.)
Senior leaders live and company values and leadership models (or they don't last long)
Diversity is valued
Innovation is taught and practiced
Flexible (dispersed) workplace and workforce is understood and practiced
Supportive managers

Cons

Change management still an issue
Limited career growth and slow to promote, could be better

Advice to Senior Management

Very disappointed that we are weighed and measured...I'm talking about being paid to submit ourselves to blood tests and to having to fill out so-called health questionairres (which basically ask two things - if your fat and if you smoke) in order to get decent health insurance (if we don't fill them out we get crazy bad awful insurance). It crosses the line WAY to far. When I'd heard the blood tests were going to be mandatory, I thought I'd have to quit to protect my privacy. Now I hear that they are not mandatory this year, but that we'll be paid off. Now I'm just disgusted. I am an extremely healthy person (why is it I feel like I have to say this?) but I'm also a private person. And it freaks me out that my body is now considered available to the company to get cheaper health insurance rates. It also pisses me off that 90% of my co-workers will bend over and take it for 600 bucks off their insurance rates. We're Americans, remember?! Senior VPs and CEO, do you have to do this? I doubt it.