Intuit

I used to work at another FAANG. Intuit is far better in terms of caring for employees, fostering a positive work environment, and providing legitimate work-life balance.

Diversity & inclusion are FAR better than the other FAANG where I worked. In the face of COVID, Intuit has doubled-down on providing employees more time off, flexible working schedules, and mental health resources.

Meetings consistently contain "please" and "thank you," and general appreciation for the work everyone is doing. From an engineering perspective, Intuit is 100% on AWS, meaning there is a ton of opportunity to be on the cutting edge of cloud tech. Intuit also has week-long "Global Engineering Days," and even managers/directors are encouraged to participate.

Intuit is trying to transform into a high-velocity company and is making progress.

But many decisions still have unclear approvers and default to consensus building. This seems cultural, and new hires from other FAANG companies are changing this.

But right now, it's still the case that a simple architectural decision can take weeks of debate when it's not really that important.

Keep encouraging speed as priority 1. Too much oversight and review of smaller, unimportant projects. We don't need perfect 'target state' architecture for every little customer experiment we want to run.