Intuit - Company with great potential, uncommonly poor senior leadership...
Pros
1) Compensation is outstanding - really tops in their markets. Very nice incentives in many areas... 2) Great benefits and site locations (very nice facilities) 3) Very flexible for work - life balance / work from home (in some areas - others are flexible, as long as you still put in 80 hrs a week :)) 4) They have some compelling products - people recognize them when you mention.
Cons
This could go on for some time... 1) While compensation is stellar, it is never possible to truly predict if it will continue (i.e. if you will be managed out, despite your personal performance). Having job stability is not likely at Intuit - and mostly because of where you are in the company. Those that speak up (i.e. tell the truth about project health, etc) are marked and added to the next RIF list... those that don't get on the list when the management flip-flop/shuffle that seems to occur annually happens. So you have to choose to be true to your convictions and have integrity (something that the senior most management obviously gave up on long ago), or silent and have a job... 2) General lack of cooperation and consistency in planning and goals across business units has created a work of competing fiefdoms in the company... painful at best (particularly in 'shared services' groups that must try and service all these kingdoms) and terribly inefficient 3) There has been no real innovation here in a long time - despite all the push and talk about this (the leadership in this area is quite weak at the senior level) - all the 'innovations' have come from purchasing other companies and then laying off the workers at Intuit who were trying to build some half-thought out product of senior mgmt in that space. 4) The IT group leadership is, without any doubt in my mind, the least capable group of senior leaders (starting at the CIO on down) that I have every worked with... they take all the ills across the rest of the company and then magnify them dramatically. I cannot believe that a software and technology company such as Intuit can continue to drive forward with no technical leadership in this central area.... all the while outsourcing all the ability to execute and think to vendors and low quality 'partners'...