Intuit Reviews in Mountain View, CA

Pros

Benefits
Great people
Mostly a strong emphasis on learning, and helping customers

Cons

lots of process
didn't handle big RIF in '09 well at all, and still bad morale
products need to be redone
ugly office park, not many on-site services that are good

Advice to Senior Management

You're losing older employees and focus on customer. Move to online services makes sense, but don't throw out baby with the bath water.

Pros

They mostly avoid insane schedules.

Cons

Senior folks seem to thrash year after year trying to decide what to build. If you work on something, you have no sense that it won't be canned in a year. And then brought back again 2 years later. There just isn't any tech savy in the higher ranks that helps them pick the right thing to work on.

Advice to Senior Management

"learn fast from your mistakes" is no excuse for making bad calls. You can't keep throwing out projects and expect engineers to stay. Quicken Online, built and replaced by Mint. Intuit Payroll, built and replaced by Paycycle. QBO, put on life support then brought back as the hope for the future. The list goes on and on.

Pros

Collaborative environment, intelligent people in front line positions

Cons

Inconsistent management; unclear changes in process that confuse people, and little to no knowledge management. People leave and what they knew leaves with them.

Advice to Senior Management

Remember that managers don't lay themselves off.

Pros

- Some smart UX managers, who previously worked for innovative companies.
- Low-pressure in terms of hourly commitment. Plenty of time allowed for project completion.
- Flexibility in terms of lateral movement within the company.
- Nice, chill XD seminar held once a year with free drinks.

Cons

- Employee life is very family-oriented. If you don't have kids, you might feel left out or inconvenienced by fellow employees leaving at 4pm to take their kids to soccer practice.
- Office culture, try as it might, is very "Office Space."
- Software offerings are disorganized and often don't see eye to eye.
- It is what it is. You will be doing UI Design for finance software, no matter how the job description is packaged.

Advice to Senior Management

- Downsize.

Pros

Lots of great ideas, open environment, people are the greatest assets

Cons

Lots of strategy no execution from management, too busy managing their careers, little investigation into this will do us some good.

Advice to Senior Management

Get a handle on your managers Brad, too many odd financial footwork- its going to get exposed

Pros

smart people, opportunities to learn new things, decent benefits, passion for the products we create and our customers, most coworkers have good intent

Cons

leaders of some teams not as strong or create an atmosphere of fear, retaliation and HR sees but does not act. unclear path for growth, unclear career mobility, managers do not help with these things

Advice to Senior Management

company has solid strategy and lots of potential but some senior leaders' poor people management is creating an exodus at a time when jobs are scarce

Pros

Intuit provided a suite of great benefits.

Cons

Intuit is a large company, and in my experience quite an impersonal environment to work. It's also a very stable company, where change happens gradually.

Advice to Senior Management

Overly hierarchical management structure.

Pros

Some sense of work life balance(in some departments :))..
good benefits..
Sensible pace of work..

Cons

Slow growth, hard work not smartness, rewarded..
Too much control to middle management.
Very Low tech - for a tech oritented org.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't ask employess to file patents and take them away, share the royalty.. make middle management transparent and accountale..

Pros

Fun, interesting, good dynamics between cross functional teams from across the company. smart comany that is determined to stay on top.

Cons

sometimes slow to adapt to change

Advice to Senior Management

challenge the status quo

Pros

great benefits, flexible work hrs, can work remotely ,

Cons

alot of politics depending on which group you work for. no proper work life balance , very aggressive program schedules which makes all of us work 24 hrs

Advice to Senior Management

be realistic on the project time lines to not cut into peoples work life balance..looks like the Mgmt people just wants promotion hence pushing unrealistic deadline