Intuit reviews

Inept middle management and nepotism (I've seen this in other reviews.) I was actually told in a performance review that I needed to modify my language, as I used words that were too sophisticated (really...I thought we were educated professionals.) Recruiters from neighboring companies indicated (when I spoke to them) that they keep watch for when Intuit purges its top performers (usually the more expensive ones) nearing the end of a fiscal year. There is a clear pattern of which positions get eliminated and when they get eliminated. This is a "get-paid-for-who-you-know/likes-you" place, not a pay-for-performance organization. Disclaimer: this may vary across the company.

Politics, Silos and the underlying knowledge that there are way too many chiefs and not enough Indians employed at Intuit is the main reason for most people leaving the company. I was privileged enough to see senior managers who when speaking you could literally see the gears turning in their head on how to re-write the words coming out of their mouth to sound in a way that their manager would want to hear rather than speaking from the heart, passion, understanding of the marketplace and how best to deliver the product to the consumer. Somewhere along the company system most managers have drank the Kool-Aid and lost their imagination and edge on how best to market products. Senior managers do not get challenged enough by their peers on their marketing plans and brand positions. Simple case in point - An executive once stated that "Trials don't Work" and then all trials for the QB product lines were dropped - rather than making the trial product easier to use. Intuit is full of good people that somewhere along the line lost their imagination and desire to do new things and push the envelope. Rather than innovate, they simply buy companies that do