Intuit closing the Omaha office
Intuit has decided to close the Omaha office. Acquired along with It’s Deductible four years ago, Omaha has supported numerous Intuit small business products. The powers that be were looking at FY08 projections and found the company was running about $60M over budget. Although it is sad Omaha will be closing, the decision is hardly a surprise. It’s been considered numerous times ever since the acquisition. In fact, I only saw two possible courses of action for the office long term–close it or spin it off as a R&D product incubator. As much as I would have liked to work in a think tank, the later option would increase expenses while closing the office is an easy save of $15M. The team here is quite talented, so I don’t expect anybody will have trouble finding new employment. Of course a few will move to California and continue with Intuit.
It’s been real… It’s been fun… It’s been real fun, but all great things come to an end. We had a very talented group of engineering, support, and product staff, so I expect great things in the future even if we don’t all work in the same office.
Even though I only joined the team nine months ago, I see this as an opportunity to do something new. I haven’t decided if I’d like to move to California (oh so expensive) or not… but for right now I’m just looking for a great project to work on… location, income, etc. are all negotiable.