I mainly have experience working in the Payroll world.
Intuit acquired PayCycle in 2009, and unfortunately inherited an awful codebase with no automated testing. Here's a snapshot of my experience:
- releases are done monthly, usually take a couple of hours and rolling back is not that uncommon
- right before I left, the regression and rollback testing was still manual for some teams (e.g manually create accounts, verify information, manually run payroll, verify information in the database, etc.)
- it was not uncommon for testing environments (qa, e2e) to be down for hours, thus blocking testing
- tons of incoherent and repetitive documentation in Confluence
- really hard to get work done when engineers aren't located in the same office
- as an engineer, sometimes you're at the mercy of the dev ops team since they have to approve a whole bunch of things before you can actually test your changes
- some teams don't have monitoring/alerts set up, so this can go unnoticed for hours when their services break or have an outage
Conclusion:
I would recommend interning for Intuit to get experience and to take advantage of being in the Bay Area and meeting some awesome people
Although I worked with some wonderful people during my time here, I would not recommend working full-time for Intuit. Ask yourself: do you really want to work for a company that still makes desktop products? There are more modern tech companies out there so don't waste your time here. If you really are considering Intuit, stay away from the payroll products and try to work in the business groups that support Mint, TurboTax, etc.
