All pros described above are nonexistent in the Plano office due to incompetent middle management. Every time you think they've already hit the absolute low, they prove you wrong. In the past couple of years, all middle management has been hired based on their nationality and not professional expertise. This leads to a chain reaction, as the same hiring practices propagate to the lower levels as well. Plano does not hire any full time engineers directly anymore. Instead, contractors from a shady recruiting companies are hired, and if they prove themselves at the social gatherings outside of work and happy hour sessions with the management, they are retained/promoted. Coincidentally, there is no diversity among the new hires and I wonder how this does not trigger a red flag with HR. Plano middle management survives by bullying its employees to provide positive reviews on the employee survey. Managers use their 1-1 meetings to go over the individual comments in the survey trying to figure out who said what and if an employee has a concern they are encouraged to leave Intuit. Some managers push their employees to work overtime, while they themselves abuse the vacation/work from home policies to the greatest possible extent, taking multiple weeks off a few times during the same year or "working" from other countries while being offline the entire time. Credit is taken from people who work hard without a second thought. Managers take credit for the work which was done even before they joined Intuit. If somebody raises a concern, they are involuntarily pushed to other teams or forced to leave the company due to frustration. All of the above negates the positive things in Plano which still has a number of very competent people who are unfortunately individual contributors without much say.
