Intuit

• Pay and benefits started out way above and beyond expectations, but have paired down a bit for newcomers.
• Never, ever bored; there are always new things coming up to work on.
• Your co-workers will be your only allies.

No teams seem to know who does what across the organization; if something breaks, everyone gets a call at 2 AM.

Product Owners don't really take ownership of their products or even bother to learn how they work.

Finances are not the most enthralling topic, but I knew this going in.

The technology stack is ancient, and you need to be lucky enough to get onto a team trying to move away from it; you will never have priority over the flagship products, however.

Your QAs positions will be shipped overseas. This will be branded as 'internationalization,' but the quality is subpar, communication is delayed by 12 hours, and your team will suffer.

You will have late nights all year, but more so in the January-April time-frame. It's expected if your systems are even remotely involved with the tax business.

When you say that layoffs don't happen because of a bad year, but then lay off people after two consecutive bad years (branded as 'restructuring unrelated to performance'), you kill morale for the long-timers.

Twenty-plus year veterans who were essential to my organization were removed unceremoniously and then replaced with two unskilled upstarts within a year later. This does not speak of integrity to me.