Intuit

Good people to work with. As a company, this has great values and lives the values! Top management pushes for innovations, but middle management...

• Middle management sucks!
• While top management thrives for innovation, breaking patterns is very difficult for middle management, and they struggle.
• Promotions are impossible if you are in the engineering community.
• While this is a technology company, engineers are not highly valued.

There is a "do" to "talk" ratio. There are a lot of "talkers" and noise makers, but fewer doers. Most of the time, doers are also annoyed by these "talkers," so-called leaders/managers. Most of the time, if a person is not good technically, they will get promoted as a "technical manager." How funny is that!

If one asks a few questions like, "What exactly are we solving for?", "Did we check with business?", "What do you think is the effort?", and a few more, they will be known as leaders.

These so-called leaders, including engineering managers and product managers, don't know what technology means or what new trends are. They don't care "how it is done"!

Additionally, when a company gets acquired, the incoming managers and their technologies are not reviewed properly. They pay big bucks to acquire technology debt. Too bad!