Intuit

It's probably the best employer I ever had, and I had many of them, big and small. Good work-life balance, excellent compensation, and flexible work time, including telecommuting, are definitely advantages that not many companies propose nowadays.

They very much follow the global American corporate trend: hire in India and fire in the US.

Career growth opportunities are few. Transferring between business units is difficult, but not impossible.

Management is rather average at all levels and is not very technical. As a result, there's a lot of talking about generic things that technical people grin at: "corporate values", "mindset", how everyone should be involved in "innovations", etc.

Since you get here, you don't want to move anywhere else (I'm not sure if it's a con :)

You need to be more specific when setting up goals for your employees. You need to translate generic "corporate values" and "mindset" stuff into actionable items that can be very different for different teams, business units, and individuals.

You need to be more technical and talk to engineers in their language if you want to influence the software engineering process and spur innovation.