Process
A recruiter contacted me for doing a coding challenge in the beginning of January. Followed by that is a webcam interview asking about how I went through the coding challenge and some follow-up questions to extend that program with more features. Then came 8 weeks of waiting and follow-up with them. By the end of March, they finally set up a technical interview and a behavioral interview on the same day and said they would make the decision by that Friday. Two weeks later, I received the follow-up saying I got rejected and that I don't know my data structures and OOD (OOP?).
The whole company seemed to be very disconnected. They never met their proposed deadlines. All the interviewers I met had Indian accents that were really hard to understand. The interviewer from my second technical interview only knew Java, and I was coding in Python, which caused confusion with her not understanding how Python syntax works. It doesn't seem like a good company to work for, and I definitely won't apply again.
Questions
Design a parking lot.
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Intuit's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
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Intuit Work Experiences
- 2.0Avoid Intuit Platform and MSAASSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Diego, California, United StatesJuly 31, 2020Pros: Good benefits, competitive total compensation outside of the Bay Area, and a decent tech stack. Engineering leadership at this company is great, but it's not very empowered. This is not what you would call an engineer-driven company. Before you read my cons, read this: There are some great parts of Intuit. They're tucked away and managed by people that came from large tech firms. Intuit Platform is a mix of purchases and very legacy tech; neither are fun to work for, and neither are very loyal in any sense. Come to Intuit, just don't come to Intuit Platform.Cons: Senior leadership enabled and encouraged a process of reclassifying people from software support positions, like quality assurance, operations, and site reliability engineering, without downleveling engineering leaders. This created chaos within the engineering ranks, and these same leaders have now adopted strategies claiming that they didn't eradicate these programs. Everything is vendored. Intuit Platform will always prefer buy over build and actively pressures its engineers to follow this model. We recently had a business leader tell us that Zoom was a model native application. Leadership lacks focus on process and at times tries to own too much without letting engineers run the show. Some managers can be combative and, at times, hostile. Other managers are totally aloof, and it seems they make every decision off of gut instinct. Managers often times lack backgrounds in software engineering. I had one that continually mixed up Git and GitHub. Clear favoritism is played when evaluating yearly bonuses (among other things), even after a revamping of the review process. Engineers now get to choose who gives them peer review, but a manager can arbitrarily decide who gets what bonus. This totally defeats the purpose.
- 4.0Good Work, Bureaucratic HurdlesSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeNovember 9, 2018Pros: Work is good and enough time is given.Cons: Too many layers to go with while contracting.
- 5.0Great for a fresherSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaDecember 4, 2018Pros: Great benefits Flexible work timings Good mentorship for freshers Management values feedback and acts on itCons: Lot of tech debt. The current focus is on removing that. Some products/tools are legacy code.
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