Joined Intuit last year after getting laid off from an Internet company. Only reason to join Intuit was not having any other offer. Intuit down leveled and low balled me (without any apparent reason, taking advantage of the market conditions), and I wanted to take revenge. After joining Intuit, I barely worked, took off for significant part of my time there and used it to continue preparations and gave other interviews. Then resigned when I had a 2x better comp offer. Got to keep the bonus and did not report the big time off. TC before Intuit: ~600K TC at Intuit: ~400K Current TC: ~800K Intuit was the most useless company I have ever seen. It seemed that nobody was working on anything substantial/impactful and people were more interested in "pretending" to work. Some of my observations during my super short stay there. AI not needed: AI has no significant use case for Intuit as the products are already pretty good and matured. Data scientists and MLE's are working on random problems with no real impact. What I mean is if they completely remove AI from Intuit (shutdown AI org), there will no negative impact on the product. And, they may save millions of dollars. Work culture: It is toxic and slow. People do not respond to slack messages, are reluctant to meet to discuss new ideas. Processes are too complex, impacting eng velocity/product iterations. To conduct one simple A/B test, it may take multiple quarters, and the result could still be inconclusive because there was a bug and nobody had the ability to correct it đ Intuit levels: Before joining Intuit, I thought their levels correspond to minus one levels at other big companies (like staff at intuit is senior at, say, FANG). However, from what I have experienced after interacting with engineers at Intuit is the levels are like minus ~1.5 to minus 2 compared to other big companies. So, an intuit staff SWE is equivalent to SWE II, intuit senior staff SWE is equivalent to senior SWE, etc. Work life balance: This is a plus point. Since there is no work, the balance is highly skewed towards life :). In my team, the probability of any team member taking off on any day for any random reason was almost 1 𤣠My advice for people getting down level/low ball offer from Intuit is just join the company, take bonus, enjoy the food, ambience, take off, and then leave when you have better offer. Essentially, treat it as a paid vacation/break (which you were longing to take since years đ but didn't get the chance) where you can do your side project or prepare for other company interviews. Intuit is not a company to stay longer than one year. Also, it may have a negative impact on your resume/career if you stay longer there. #intuit #revenge #layoff #downlevel #lowball #tech
Wow. Whatâs your YOE and new company?
whoa you showed them!!! did nothing and left how will they survive without you! way to make them not feel your loss!!
this just OPâs way of boosting his own ego lol. Thinking 400k means anything to big company likes Intuit or that his departure means anything to a big corporation. If a lesson was âtaughtâ then Intuit will changeâŚwhich they wonât until the market does.
Most ironic post. OP doesnât realize theyâre the toxic one.
Hmm, Intuit has been doing the worst form of silent "layoffs" where they are not giving any notice period and offering zero severance (have heard from a couple of ex-colleagues there). What I did was a slap from all those ppl on Intuit's face. When the companies themselves do not think about employees/candidates, why should the latter think?
Thank you! M.ore people need to become aware at what a dumpster fire Intuit has become. On top of all of what op said, the CEO is a complete sociopath and is terrible for the employees well being and mental health.
Who hurt you brother?!? đ could have stopped at the TC
Smart ! What was your role and YOE ? Which office ?
Great job OP. Totally agree with your approach of joining and applying to get the right level and TC. Best way to take revenge on those recruiters who lie to you and hiring manager who down levels you. I was happy to do something similar during my time at Amazon. The only issue with this approach is that if you do it too many times, you will have many short stays in your resume which is not great.
Which company and role did u jump to ? To get the tc of 800k ⌠congrats to get that tc in this market
Hey OP, are you me? The same thing happened with me. Intuit lowballed me like crazy. You are lucky you got 400K, they gave me 250K around. Can we connect? I sent you a DM.
However I donât have the free time?!? My team has too much work
sounds like Indeed