Intuit Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Cons

Opportunities to grow in role and also career ladder moves are completely dependant on who you are friends with. Many people deserved recognition however time and again they ended up leaving due to others getting all the progression. Work life balance was sometimes ignored and expectation to work during weekends and evenings happened too often.

Cons

Intuit is a sort of stealth brand; if you want people to know who you work for you always end up saying something like "Quickbooks? Quicken? TurboTax?... Yeah, those people." Not everyone gets to work on sexy new technology; C++ still pays a lot of the bills. Depending on your group, you may spend a lot of time in meetings. Every software lifecycle strategy out there can be found somewhere at Intuit. Not every team has bought into Scrum, Agile, or XP (Extreme Programming). Intuit isn't really an international brand, so you won't find too much chance to travel abroad if you're not senior management.

Cons

I used to be in the military and I have found that Intuit is not very fair when it comes to supporting soldiers. I was one of the first reservists to have to go overseas and it felt like Intuit was treating me like I was on vacation for a year, not fighting for our country. Since my return I felt that Intuit has done a better job for the employees. I am still trying to get back compensation for missing 6 pay raises for the 10 years that I have been here. It's been a hard road, but Intuit makes up for it with the other benefits that we have.

Cons

There's no real cons that I can really pinpoint this early in my career. Having to pay for lunch, maybe. :)

Cons

I did not find any

Cons

Intuit has been in business for more than 25 years, and is not the most cutting edge company. The business, small business accounting and tax, are not that interesting. And, the company hasn't had a really huge product hit in many years. It's really living off the success of early product such as QuickBooks and Turbo Tax. Intuit also suffers from many of the issues that other large companies suffer from, politics, too much process. And, the company is very heavy on meetings. Many days are booked for 8 hours with meetings. There are some politics at Intuit, but that happens everywhere.

Cons

1. Worst decision they have taken to remove QE profile 2. Not all but few managers do lot of micro managements 3. After the org change work life balance is not good (After removing QEs and devops profile) 4. Technical learning is good but not best

Cons

Inconsistent management abilities - some senior managers are great, others make you question their decision making. Absolutely no plan when it comes to career development - most managers don't have the time or make the effort to discuss career development with you. Career advancement is not based on results but rather who you know and the reputation you build.

Cons

Each of the 4 years that I worked at Mint (Intuit) they changed the long term strategy and told us that we could ignore our old priorities. Each time we start our new strategy, we quickly had to change priorities back to the original priorities because we weren't meeting our goals/numbers. More frustrating that the constant change in strategy is the middle management. Their sole goal in life is to ensure that you're doing what you're told. They ALWAYS disregard your feedback and consistently want to pursue their own agenda. If you don't agree with them, they will phase you out as many of my colleagues were. Code Reuse, Code Coverage and Unit Tests is their #1 priority and receive their attention on a regular basis. You will hear them talk about innovation and new features but it's all talk. To help foster innovation they schedule innovation jams or hack days. Everyone is a winner at the innovation jam or hack day but the customer is the loser because nothing actually gets shipped. There have only been 3 or 4 major features shipped in the 4 years that I have been here. What's worse than no new features, not fixing bugs either. Go look at the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Many many users complain about being logged out, or their bank connection is lost or their transactions are not accurate. We bought this up to middle management and senior management but were told that connectivity is not an area of focus for us. That doesn't even make sense, how can Mint work if you can't connect a bank. The true problem with Mint, is that Intuit does not want to invest in them as a Personal Finance Solution. They rarely ever talk about Mint at Intuit. When there are company wide meetings, Mint is rarely mentioned. The same is true for Quicken and finally decided to sell Quicken and I'm sure that Mint will experience the same fate. In Summary: 1. Constant Changes in long term strategy only to go back to the original strategy 2. Middle Management only cares about their initiatives and does not care about the customer and the individual teams. 3. They talk about new features that ship nothing and worse, don't tend to the other issues 4. Mint will never really be a part of the long term strategy at Intuit

Cons

Intuit runs into a lot of the same issues as other large corporations with bureaucracy and entrenched thinking slowing down creativity and advancement into new areas such as web applications.