By far the biggest disadvantage is exceptionally poor alignment and leadership in HR, which is the function I worked in. The result is long hours of wasted effort. My management was entirely unreceptive to taking any concrete measures towards greater clarity and alignment. Indeed, it is entirely possible they lack the requisite abilities to do so. One gets the strong impression they were put in positions based on personal loyalty rather than professional abilities (favoritism has been identified as one perennial issue at Intuitive - but they are paltry efforts to address - it is very much a class system and senior leaders seem to consider that the natural order of things). In general I found my management did the instagram nice thing on zoom but exhibited a high handed and hostile streak when pressed to have fundamental conversations (such as: how is my performance measured).
Ultimately, it was a job I just had to walk away from. It was literally an unhealthy place to work. It is a fear based management culture where they sell one vision for a few months, change tracks, call it evolution when in fact it is simply ineptness, and reward those putting in the effort towards "HR transformation" by eliminating their jobs and offering to let them apply to lower level, lower pay positions. They are pushing many good people out, disempowering the good people that stay, and protecting those in higher level positions who consistently fail to deliver.
There is considerable talk of Intuitive having a unique culture. In my experience, its just another medium sized bay area employer with a strong PR and propaganda game where careerist political hacks use the "values" card as an excuse rather than a guiding principal. In the end, I found it the epitome of the worst sort of corporate stereotypes and tropes with absolutely no sense of self awareness or irony.
