Intuit reviews

In 2008, Intuit acquired a small unprofitable company whose CEO happened to be the golden child of Intuit's Chairman. While this acquisition only affected the Mountain View headquarters (Intuit's Small Business Division), it had a dramatic impact on the culture. The environment rapidly shifted from a focus on rational and data-driven decision making to an environment where self-serving opinions, politics and strong-arming of employees became the norm. This shift is mainly attributable to that small company's CEO being "integrated" into Intuit's ranks despite his open contempt for Intuit's ways. Intuit's culture needed to change. But changing a culture to adapt to a new reality doesn't mean you need to violate the company's core values such as "it's the people", "integrity without compromise" or "think smart, move fast." Unfortunately, these values are now being trampled on a daily basis. Today, a much larger number of employees is looking to leave. Screaming in meetings is apparently no longer frowned upon and employees driven to tears is becoming habitual.

Intuit had a great culture a few years ago. A recent acquisition brought with them management of a toxic variety that is fast corrupting everyone. If you are not part of the Prima Donna leader's coterie then life is terrible for you are branded as a serf of no consequence . These so called leaders have asked employees (serfs) to leave all thinking to them and just follow orders without question. Complete reorgs are based on whims and fancies and some mysterious twisted logic that keeps changing . As a result one can rely on a reorg every few months doing little for the overall productivity.