While Intuit tries to advertise itself as a diverse place to work (programs for getting women back to work, LGBT tolerance), it conveniently ignores the biggest diversity problem: racial diversity at HQ (Mountain View). Intuit is being overrun by Indians, especially in its engineering organization. Even with its current state of poor racial diversity, Intuit is importing lots of their employees from India Development Center (IDC) to the HQ, making the matter worse. An anecdotal example of Intuit diversity: we had a team party, in a room of 50+ ppl, I counted only about 5 white and 2-3 East-Asian coworkers; the rest are Indians.
And that will affect the overall morale of the "minority". The majority Indians, while most are friendly, tend to group together, even during team meeting or social. It's hard to break into those circles or even influence critical business decisions (most Indian coworkers agreeing with Indian boss). Within a week when I left, 5 or 6 people moved on to other companies. That's probably usual in Silicon Valley except all of them are East-Asians (Chinese, Korean, Singaporean) and white. Maybe it's coincidental but I wouldn't think so. Another problem is Intuit having lots of layoffs/re-orgs and seeing your Indian boss naturally closer to your Indian teammates, you won't have the confidence that your fate is decided by your work quality.
I have to say that most of my Indian coworkers are competent and qualified. However, when many candidates and most interview committees are entirely Indians, I'm not sure if there is no bias in their interview process. When I moved to another similarly large company, I noticed that although there are many Indian co-workers but also there is as many East-Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) and white coworkers (roughly 1/3 Indians, 1/3 East-Asians). That seems more statistically reasonable, compared to Bay Area demographics.
