Opportunity overload: There is so much to work on here and so many opportunities, it can be exhausting. The opportunities are endless. And with an engineering group in India, there are lots of late night/early morning phone calls. Anytime of day or night, I can IM a coworker, because my team is spread across 6 time zones.
Reorgs: Intuit tends to reorg regularly, so it's not unusual to have a new boss every year. Managers go behind the screens to help to engineer reorgs. Groups get moved to organizations where they don't seem to belong based on this behind the scenes feedback. The impact of this is that you can end up in a group that has no idea what you do, then end up spending six months trying to get people to understand your role. It can be exhausting.
Title deflation: If you are director somewhere and you come to Intuit, you'll be hired as a manager or an individual contributor. If you are a prinicipal or an architect somewhere, at Intuit you'll just be a senior level. People tend to join us for the experience, then they leave and get huge titles elsewhere. You won't get a huge title by working here and if you do, just know that elsewhere, you'd be titled at the next level up. Typical example: Senior XD leaves here and becomes Director somewhere else.
Voice of employee surveys: It's great that Intuit values employee feedback, but it can be a tough place to be a manager. If you get bad employee survey results, you absolutely have to fix the underlying issues or you can get fired for it. No one wants bad survey results. If you are a leader thinking of joining us, you should pay attention to this. Do you want a regular report card from your employees? You'll get to read verbatims where they nitpick ever aspect of your performance (provided you have more than five employees). If you thrive on this kind of feedback, then you might be a fit for Intuit. On the other hand, if this kind of thing really eats a way at you, do yourself a favor and don't apply.
