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It was a great place to work when it followed its core values

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Intuit for 4 years
December 26, 2019
San Diego, California
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Great work-life balance, encouraged to work from home when showing sick symptoms, and lots of on-campus socials and events. Really good benefits and pays well.

Cons

You're just a statistic at this company, here to do code within a very narrow set of defined proprietary tooling.

There is no loyalty to you at this company, and it is likely due to disconnected leadership that you will get moved onto multiple teams over a 2-3 year period due to the constant chopping blocks.

They try Scrum and Agile, yet got rid of all Scrum Masters. Promotions are arbitrary and not based on your merits or tenure; rather, you are judged by people who may not even know who you are or what you have done.

The greater majority of employees are either fresh out of college with no real experience but create an echo chamber of thought process.

They have trouble hiring experienced talent because of inexperienced engineers who have only ever worked at Intuit doing interviews.

Very political, biased, and disconnected executive leadership.

Company earns two-thirds of its revenue via tax but insists everything be made via the Quickbooks platform in Mountain View and then syndicated to all other platforms and/or locations.

Hiring process is greatly based on social engineering principles and made more difficult to get past screenings if not considered a minority.

Have literally been told by a recruiter to make my best effort to hire because they are a diversity candidate, as if being qualified is secondary.

Advice to Management

Stop trying to make everything a one-solution-fits-all. It goes against company core values, it goes against D4D, and it makes for a really crummy engineering experience and leaves innovation at the door.

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