Intuit reviews

Reorganizations every year leading to lay-offs and selling off divisions. Lots of meeting, red-tape and too much politics. Lots of middle management, and on top of that very few managers are technical! The interesting thing is that the company calls them leaders and spends a lot of money on developing leadership skills for these managers, but in actuality, they are just supervisors and they have no idea what they are doing. And the engineers that actually do the hard work are undermined and are usually the ones that get axed during the annual re-orgs because upper management is clueless of what is really going on! Company goes through a cycle of : -Acquiring an innovative company, struggled attempts to integrate the new products into the existing Intuit offerings, then sells off the business unit at a fraction of the original purchase price (i.e. Homestead, DemandForce, ...) Career advancements or lateral moves across organizations is very difficult for technical (non-qa) talent.

Intuit is slipping fast towards an organizational and technical hazard. Too many decision makers make too many decisions too frequently and exclusively all of them proved to be wrong in a matter of two years. They do not learn from their mistakes while praising and promoting the mistakes under the brand of agility. Too many mid-level managers with insufficient training and insight are clogging the technical flow. Team work is in a miserable situation. The company does not possess the required technical skill to keep up with market demands, yet their hiring effort is focused on mid-managers and at best volatile resources, such as contractors and interns. For a mid-career tech professional, this place is surely a dead end. What is keeping this company alive is the Turbotax product and its semi-techie users' decade-long practice with it. The company does all its best to keep the status-quo. The product is maintained extremely ad hoc, with abrupt and inexplicable top-down decisions and without any transparency to the teams involved. The unit has turned into a managerial bubble shouldered by weak and unorganized technical teams. There is no hope for a technical breakthrough in the short term.