Intuit

• Work-life balance in the off-season
• Chill vibe
• Entrusts even younger engineers with work that can wreck the product so you can make a big impact right away

• Copies what other big companies do without thinking whether it is actually suitable for the team. The only explanation given is "[big company] does it and we want to be a big company."

• Lack of engineering expertise in general, but front-end in particular. They do not access talent accurately, so even as a fresh grad, it's difficult to find someone more skilled than you to learn from.

• Claims to be like a startup, but a ton of bureaucracy keeps you moving at a snail's pace. Intense culture of fear of messing up to the point of needing a week to get a simple bugfix out the door.

• Zero effort is given to cultivate employees' technical expertise. All management cares about is delivering business objectives.

For all the talk of wanting to be among the top echelon of tech companies, until you actually invest in tech and cultivate technical expertise in your employees, all you ever will be is a product company.

You want to retain young talent, but if you're not offering them career growth, their only option is to leave.