Vantaggi
The benefits here are pretty unmatched. Yes it's lame and inconvenient to have to accrue time off and start at zero, but it's awesome to get paid out. The stock price is relatively stable and add a great bump to your comp. Yearly bonuses are generous and reliable. Parental leave is some of the best out there. There are all kinds of fringe benefits and discounts.... honestly it's pretty unbeatable. I can see Intuit being a really easy place to settle in and just do your time, ride out the experience, and get everything you can from it for you and your family, and clock in and clock out. In fact thats what you see a lot of people there do, there are a lot of an older skewed demographic and it's not unusual to meet people who have been there 10+ years, or even who have never worked anywhere but Intuit. The real question is: are you the type of person who can treat/see a job in this way? It seems like there is a lot of mobility within Intuit, which is nice to see. I have seen people move between teams according to interest and get promoted, which is really nice. There is easy access to a lot of great tools (though IT processes are very heavy). Work life balance seems great! If you care about your job and want to make things that matter, you will still be working 40+ hours per week, but its clear not everyone does. There's some flexibility there.
Svantaggi
To be clear, overall I still think Intuit is a good place to work. Company values are good, WLB is reasonable, and they clearly care for their people. With that said I will be transparent about the most frustrating aspects of Intuit I have seen: the product, the operations, and the talent. I work on one of the larger products aimed at accountants within the org. The degree to which our customers hate the product is really disturbing- it's just that they feel they have no viable alternative in the market. As a person who loves the craft of product, it's demoralizing to work on a product that people generally hate using. Leadership and the company seem to show minimal interest in making the product better or more lovable. In fact, I've seen and heard of major product changes that went into beta or a/b testing, were failures by all metrics measured, and shipped anyway. Operationally, Intuit can be quite frustrating. Even if you are lucky enough to work on a fast moving team, release approval and deployment cycles are so slow there really is no such thing as a fast turn around. If you have to work cross functionally with another team, I've found many teams to be a bit territorial. Many people I interact with are under the impression they and their job exist to maintain existing systems/the status quo, not to deliver new value to the business (much less to the customers). The 3 days required in-office is also strange given there aren't really assigned seats and you may not work locally with anyone on your team- it makes this rule seem very arbitrary. I often go into the office and am at a desk on Zoom all day (there is a meeting room shortage) Lastly, the overall quality of talent seems lower than I've seen elsewhere. When you have tens of thousands of employees, I'm sure maintaining quality can be a challenge. I have worked with principal level product people who have trouble with basic communication, little attention to detail or follow through on direction, and are unable to advise on basic product behaviors or solutions. To be clear, I've also worked with very talented people at Intuit, but it seems like an unusually even mix.