Intuit

• Good health benefits (comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans)
• 401K with employer matching
• Stock purchase plan
• Fitness center
• Work/life balance

Reorganizations every year lead to lay-offs and selling off divisions.

Lots of meetings, red tape, and too much politics.

Lots of middle management, and on top of that, very few managers are technical. The interesting thing is that the company calls them leaders and spends a lot of money on developing leadership skills for these managers, but in actuality, they are just supervisors and they have no idea what they are doing. The engineers that actually do the hard work are undermined and are usually the ones that get axed during the annual re-orgs because upper management is clueless of what is really going on.

Company goes through a cycle of:

• Acquiring an innovative company, struggling attempts to integrate the new products into the existing Intuit offerings, then sells off the business unit at a fraction of the original purchase price (i.e. Homestead, DemandForce, ...).

Career advancements or lateral moves across organizations are very difficult for technical (non-QA) talent.

• Get rid of incompetent middle management, who are not technical and have no idea what they are doing.
• Need to stay ahead of the competition instead of responding to competition by making a lot of acquisitions.
• Hire the right people and the right management, so the company can reduce the number of re-orgs every year.