Intuit Reviews

Pros

Good company with lot of values
Innovation focus and always encourage new thoughts
Customer focus
Recognition of good work

Cons

Career Aspiration
Technical path not clear
Not all Business Unit are consistent

Advice to Senior Management

Brad is doing great and role model, this setup hight expectation on mgmt. Company is not doing TDI (Technology) but working on CDI (Customer), which needs to be change in current era.

Pros

Good support for work/life balance
Great coworkers
Energetic and inspiring leadership from the top
You will have plenty of opportunities to learn about the company in a number of positions as Intuit is great at encouraging mobility and new learning opportunities

Cons

Due to all of the outsourced jobs over the last few years, it seems as if there is a heightened sense of job uncertainty among some of the employees

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to offer employee surveys but do a better job of listening and acting on the feedback. There are some areas for improvement that show up year after year on the employee surveys but never get acted on.

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

* Great company with good brand recognition
* Good work-life balance, nice perks and friendly environment
* Employees are treated with respect and taken care well

Cons

* When it comes to immigration and GC, its internal policy is inconsistent and recent policy changes are affecting to an extent, Intuit stopped filing I-485. It's terrible!!!
* Unless you join Intuit as Staff engineer, don't expect your green-card to be filed in EB2 category. Default is EB3 category. Join here unless you are not worried about getting GC faster.
* Senior management are at-times difficult to handle. But you will get used to it (start ignoring them!).

Advice to Senior Management

* As you know immigrants, are hard working first class citizens of the company. Don't think you can screw them and still you can retain your top 20 spot as amazing company to work for. Time will tell.

Pros

Loved the people I worked with, got to tackle new and interesting projects and felt like I was given good constructive feedback on jobs well done and areas to improve.

Cons

Internal political struggles, bad communication between different groups made work frustrating.

Advice to Senior Management

Find ways to stop the infighting and turf wars. It felt like too many interesting projects were sidelined or stalled because of interminable discussions about who's "place" it was to do what.

Pros

Collaborative culture, transparency and support from leadership, great internal communication about status and direction of company

Cons

Sometimes it takes awhile to get feedback from some managers

Pros

Great opportunities, good management, good benefits and perks

Cons

High contract/seasonal workforce, can be stressful at peak in season

Pros

The benefit package is above average for the location and industry. You work with competent peers. The environment is one in which constructive feedback is well received and implemented.

Cons

You have to actively seek out performance feedback. Your work tasks will be extended beyond those described during the hiring process. This can be both good and bad depending upon your personality and willingness.

Advice to Senior Management

The management at Intuit exceeds in keeping everyone informed of the company direction; adding in more focus on employee growth and performance feedback through the year would close the remaining communication gap.

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

Intuit provides a flexible work environment and the benefits are good - generous 401k Match, good ESPP, gym reimbursement etc. Senior management is easily approachable and they have a clear strategy in place.

Cons

The work is not all that challenging, most of the middle management is not very good and any decisions they make are usually politically motivated - how best those decisions can position them to get up the ladder, rather than if they are necessarily good for the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure your mid-level management (Directors & below) are subject matter experts if you want to effectively execute on your strategy. Most of them have general management experience and do not have subject matter expertise, so they cannot or choose not to hire effectively fearing they could be sidelined. A lot of time is wasted before the relevant experts are identified and decisions are made, and in many cases the recommendations made by the folks on the ground are lost in translation, and morph into something else when they reach senior management.