Let's buy start-ups and eliminate their innovation by forcing the 'Intuit Political Structure' on them.
Pros
Great benefits package. Great pay. Good food at cafeterias. Office parking lots are empty on Fridays. Easy to not be accountable and push the work to other groups.
Cons
Management pushes innovation, has a brainstorm engine with lots of ideas but don't see any in the marketplace. Seems they are laying off the workers who post ideas and buying companies that are innovative... But, when introduced to the highly political structure of Intuit, will be doomed as their ideas won't go anywhere. Why is it Intuit challenged the number of users Mint.com has, and then buys them? Seems rather fishy... Current employees are unmotivated as Intuit doesn't know who it wants to be as strategies change on a dime... It appears the strategy has changed to 'how I can get away with pushing work off to others' and 'how' I can do it, rather than results driven performance.
