 The company is betting its future on putting AI in its products and will be hiring employees with strategic skills, mainly in engineering, production, and customer-facing jobs. Intuit was ahead of the pack in seeing the potential of AI. Four years ago, it did something similar, laying off about 700 employees and hiring about 700 with AI skills. The strategy seems to be working in the latest Fortune 500 ranking based on revenue. Intuit jumped 10%.