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Great benefits, lagging tech stack

Staff Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Intuit for 4 years
September 23, 2015
Mountain View, California
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

The benefits are great: 401k, health, bonus, and holiday parties.

The campus is nice.

It's a "named company."

Cons

The company changes tack every 6 months, with 4 years of layoffs and selling off divisions.

There are lots of meetings, lots of red tape, and not a lot of coding.

Most development is put into "how to sell / monetize," with less time and resources targeted for features or new products.

The company has a repeated cycle:

  • Acquiring an innovative company.
  • Struggled attempts to cross-sell / up-sell the new product with its current product lines.
  • Struggled attempts to integrate the new product into the existing Intuit systems (data centers, CRM, etc).
  • Selling said acquisition at a fraction of the original purchase price (see Medfusion, Homestead, Demandforce, etc).

For technical (non-QA) talent, it is very hard to move to different divisions in the company.

Advice to Management

If you want to grow new products, focus on features.

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