Intuit

• Pay is good, not excellent, but good.

Ever since the mass layoff announced in July of '24, managers have been pressured to let go of at least 10% of their team members under the guise of performance improvement plans. This push for "rank and yank" has everyone trying so hard to not be the least performant member of the team to avoid falling into that 10% that will be pushed out. This might sound good on paper, but instead of everyone trying to be more performant, it more often than not leads to trying to look good by having someone else look worse in comparison. It definitely hurts morale and team structures.

Leadership that was brought in the last few years from companies like Amazon definitely thrives on this fear-driven culture, and that was a turn for the worst.

Listen to the people who are actually in touch with the products that are bringing in the revenue, so that you are not just trying to have better "profit" numbers by reducing headcount instead of increasing revenue. Exec decisions are so disconnected from the reality of the markets that sometimes I had to stop and wonder if they even knew what company they were working for.