Intuit Reviews in Mountain View, CA

Pros

Seems like the CEOs office says and does the right things but that changes as you go down the food chain. Some business areas are great and some are horrible.

Cons

IT is not treated very well although they're supposedly 'driving the direction of the business' but don't get the perks or respect that revenue driven businesses get. It's kind of sad but true.

Advice to Senior Management

Make lower management more like upper management.

Pros

Very generous benefits package
Very high product market share in all flagship products: QuickBooks, Quicken, & TurboTax
Flexible workplace

Cons

New foreign culture has emerged, replacing the original culture established by Scott Cook
Too much off-shoring of previously American jobs
Uneven management competencies observed

Advice to Senior Management

Increase the say-do ratio to honestly support workers and their career development
Celebrate more individual sucesses to keep employees happy
Send all personnel managers to management skills classes to even the skill set across the company

Pros

Good work life balance. Good team.

Cons

while joining they promised to file my GC after finishing 1 year, but when the time came they kept postponing saying you have time on your H1, kept pending till it was my last year and finally were going to file it in EB3. Do they think they are the only company in the US to file me a GC. I am good off resigning from the place. Got my GC filed from another company in EB2 and relived with immigration tensions.

They used my work and experience for there benefit and ignored my request to file in EB2 which was the only thing that I asked!!! Beware b4 joining.

Advice to Senior Management

Do something about this immigration issue other wise..you will loose people who are worthy

Pros

- Great focus on customers and ease of use products

Cons

- Extremely political at the top, which filters down
- used to be a place where the best people worked, but those are all being pushed out as extremely political back stabbers get hired...very unfortunate

Advice to Senior Management

- Just become someone is obnoxious doesn't mean they actually know what they are doing...stop hiring in jerks at the top

Pros

Extremely good work / life balance.

Cons

Can get slow, too much churn. Management can get conservative.

Advice to Senior Management

Would be nice to concentrate more on engineering than non-engineering roles, since after all this is a software company. Too much emphasis on leadership. Could use younger staff.

Pros

Serious about living the values
Strong focus & culture of innovation
Strong Senior Leadership
Push for best in class results

Cons

It's now a big company and it feels that way
Some teams are much more energizing to work on than others
Work life balance can be an issue

Advice to Senior Management

Integrity without compromise is the most important cooperate value there is. Relentlessly keep it at the forefront of every decision. Don't compromise on that one.

Pros

Great talent to work with.
Investment in employee development.
Focused on solving for employees, customers and shareholders.
Opportunity to work on new product development.

Cons

Highly results driven culture can undermine delivering the highest quality products to customers.
Need to balance between what did not go well with recognition of what did and accomplishments.

Pros

Benefits package is the best I've seen
Flexible hours and workplace
Decent work-life balance

Cons

Management by slogan
Middle managers often don't know what it actually going on in their groups
Promotion is by politics and not work output
Business units are siloed and even within a BU people don't work together towards a common goal

Advice to Senior Management

Talk to your employees and figure out what is really going on in your departments.

Pros

Senior Leadership has solid experience.
Benefits are above average especially health benefits.
Products are top notch. Most customers love them and have high retention.

Cons

Company prefers to bring external leadership rather promoting with in.
Politics and red tape is still a problem.
Culture has changed b/c of several acquisitions.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus more on organic innovation versus acquisitions.

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.