Intuit

Lots of people really love their job here.

Laid-back environment (except during crunch tax time).

Access to leaders who genuinely care about you.

Good pay.

You will become a better person by working here.

If you want to create too much change, they will push you out.

It's the Intuit way or the highway. Although the Intuit way is very nice, an example is team X doesn't respond to email for a week. Instead of looking them up, calling them, or finding them in person, you are expected to relax and trust that everything will work out. This sometimes means delays, and it's not something I'm terribly used to coming from the startup world.

Decisions really are top-down, despite how much leadership cares.

Directors and managers have too much power, and there are 10 non-performers who just create politics for every one person that helps.

(Why do we have 'Architects' who cannot or do not code?)

You can likely fire 3/4 of Intuit and it wouldn't impact our velocity as an organization. The Intuit way is to teach and mentor them instead of firing them, I get that. But we really need to empower more engineers, designers, and other producers to be able to own and create projects they see fit without having to get approvals from a bunch of people who don't make very good decisions anyway.

Overall, Intuit needs to invest more in its engineering and take more risks in the market. People are remarkably happy here, and it's really nice to work on a team of people that value teamwork above self-marketing.

Nobody is perfect, and I have no intention of leaving any time soon.

Most of my teammates have been with Intuit over a decade and wouldn't change it for the world.

Intuit is a rare bird for sure.