Vantaggi
Large successful, software company with recognizable, trusted brands. Top talent. Innovative. Design-driven. Customer focused. Good pay, good benefits. Founder, Scott Cook is amazing and CEO, Brad Smith is amazing. Both are very approachable and engaging. Had great annual Create The Offering (CTOF) conferences. Very nice campus. Great cafeteria and nice fitness center free weights, machines, cardio equipment and group classes.
Svantaggi
(TurboTax) Managers/directors are not trained well and many managers in technical departments aren't technically trained and don't understand "why it takes so long to write code". The layers between the C-level execs and the individual contributors is the company's weak middle. Need better leaders in the core. Maybe even get rid of a couple layers of middle-management. They just get in the way of productivity in most cases. Performance reviews are a joke. One year I worked my arse off, had huge successes and even drove a project that saved the company $12million and got a "needs improvement". Next year, didn't work half as hard and didn't have near the accomplishments and received the highest rating plus the highest bonus I was eligible to get. Made no sense.