Intuit Reviews in Mountain View, CA

Pros

Great company to work for
People are friendly, helpful and love to learn
Great management

Cons

Sharing and socializing before making decisions. At Intuit there are several "stakeholders" on every project, which results into slower decision making

Advice to Senior Management

Continue conducting the internal communications and allowing career mobility to be found throughout.

Continue to push small teams with limited checkins to move faster.

Pros

the benefits are very good

Cons

overall culture of the company does not encourage thinking out of the box

Advice to Senior Management

that they should take a more technical approach to project management rather let projects controlled by inexperienced PM's and Managers who dont understand the low level details.

they instead need the concept of tech leads

Pros

Benefits especially vision
Above average salary
Lots of smart people
Leader in the accounting and financial software category
Very customer focused

Cons

Career paths may not always be well defined
Can be seen as hard to get a promotion
Sometimes too much focus on asking people to significantly improve weaknesses, rather than focusing on strengths
Need real technical and senior management to run IT

Advice to Senior Management

Bring in management that have led SaaS companies

Pros

- intuit provides lots of perks - generous 401k matching, onsite gym, mass transit subsidy, free/discounted intuit products, fitness incentive
- intuit encourages open communication - you can freely address your opinions about things that you like/don't like
- intuit has lots of non-work related programs that allow us to have fun and to socialize with folks from other groups

Cons

intuit started as a desktop software company. it is still undergoing a lot of changes to transform itself into a saas company. but i believe that we have the right leaders in the company to make the right decisions to take the company to the next level.

Advice to Senior Management

as mentioned above, intuit has the right leaders to make decisions to make intuit a true saas company. i trust that we will see positive results very soon.

Pros

Interns treated very well (housing, free car rentals, competitive pay, free events)
Interns gain industry valued skills

Cons

Meeting heavy culture means enforcing deadlines and pushing on people to follow through.

Advice to Senior Management

Minimize bureaucracy so that it does not take weeks for decisions to get made through the chain of command.

Pros

Work/life balance (a lot of the time)
Flexible work environment, allow telecommuting
Great energy and support for giving back to the community in many ways
Great reputation makes it easy to attract candidates
Positive and professional environment

Cons

Spare us the endless PowerPoints. Less is more, guys!
If you piss somebody off or tarnish your personal brand in some way (also known as not having a good "how" or " breaking glass") you might as well leave, because you cannot recover, no matter how strong your results are.

Advice to Senior Management

Too much focus on how you do your work and an inconsistent application of that perspective (the "cornerstone engineers" can be as poor in relationships as they want and are still retained because of their technical prowess). When you acquire a company, don't let their leadership thumb their nose at the Intuit leadership and maintain an elitist attitude, refusing to integrate into the Intuit whole. They are either on the bus or not.

Pros

- Good benefits
- Flexible work environment
- Nice offices
- Very competitive bonus structure
- Company is poised to execute on its SaaS strategy
- Much improved structure in the Small Biz team after several years of misguided efforts to build massive, ill advised software "platforms"

Cons

- not terrifically innovative
- difficult to get promoted into the upper tiers of management. The environment is very political so you have to play the game the way they do

Advice to Senior Management

- hire more fresh talent that understands the online saas world. you are getting there but there are still too many folks living in the past

Pros

Intuit as a company had good pay and great benefits. There were a lot of programs (like flextime) that my department was not allowed to participate in but existed at Intuit. The company is in transition. Brad Smith is now the CEO and is trying to make Intuit a more viable company. Of course, this means there is a lot of change and it seems like functions, departments, and people are constantly being reorganized. I think the Company as a whole as good intentions and tries to do the right thing. I think Senior Management is sincere in trying to make Intuit a great place to work.

Cons

As probably with most companies, your day to day work environment may be very different than what the company as a whole projects to the public. As a Company, Intuit is going through a lot of changes which means reorgs and layoffs. The company is still struggling with their identity. This can be unnerving for some and exciting for others.

I worked in the finance group. My department leader within that group had some learning to do in specific areas of managing people. I am surprised Intuit never had this person properly trained. I would think a company of Intuit's size would spend more resources educating their managers on how to manage people. It was the typical manager scenerio - good technical skills but poor people skills.

Advice to Senior Management

Managers that have direct contact with employees on a day to day basis really need to have extensive training in communication and people skills. How these people interact and treat your employees on a day to day basis impacts their work and their quality of life.

Pros

Intuit has a good compensation package and a very good work / life balance. Most co-workers are talented.

Cons

Too many layers of management.
Not-so-good acquisitions ("reverse" integration causes major pain and absolutely no results in terms of speed or revenue)

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the customer focus; get rid of this B.S. of "reverse integration" when acquiring companies. Understand that acquired small companies are NOT necessarily better than internal people.

Pros

Innovation is king, white space time is heavily encouraged, and design-for-delight best practices are being implemented. Management has finally made a companywide commitment to SaaS. These moves are long overdue.

Cons

There seems to be some fear in the leadership about how much to invest in existing teams, so we acquire companies instead. Then incoming team leaders are put in charge of divisions, and layoffs ensue. For the survivors, there is a feeling of working for a subsidiary of Intuit.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest as much in existing teams as you do in the companies you buy.