Intuit reviews

Where do I start? To begin with, management is not what you would consider "top calibre" -- I wonder if some of them even have degrees. Regardless, the company makes most of its money from 2 or 3 cash-cow products and they jealously guard these sacred cows. Understandable. The problem is that the company really falls on its face encouraging and stimulating innovation. In fact, the company secretly sabotages efforts at innovation from within. Furthermore, all that stifled creative energy gets turned inward into a really nasty political environment. It's one of those companies where every year 5 or 10% of its staff have to be jettisoned. And if you don't know who this year's sacrificial lamb is -- then its YOU.

The corporate values and culture that made Intuit successful are losing focus. Intuit was a company I sought out to work for in 2005 based on all the great things I'd heard. Despite all advice to the contrary, I focused my job search on just that one company...and I was hired. It was a dream place to work for 2-3 years: a strong set of corporate values, excellent line of sight with company goals at all levels, training, coaching, and mentoring. I excelled in that environment and I received nothing but Outstanding performance ratings from 5 different managers over 4 years. But except for a few pockets here and there (led by a handful of great managers), that's all fading fast...at least in Tucson. Many, many outstanding workers have been laid off to save money at the expense of providing quality products and services. Line of sight with senior leadership is cloudy or obscured all together. And the honesty and integrity that used to be apparent from senior leadership has morphed into a jumble of transparent buzz words and euphimisms that appeal mostly to stockholders and fool no one inside the company who is paying attention.