Started out strong... - Anonymous employee Shutterfly Employee Review

1.0
20 May 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some really great people, even great managers. Love the products! A lot of great work going on here.

Cons

There are plenty of BAD managers too. If you don't truly like people, don't manage people. If you don't have the time to provide guidance, don't manage people. If you think that the people you manage are definitely stupider than you, don't manage people. Very little in the way of building camaraderie if you're not in California. Upper management rarely visited, so you didn't get the feeling that they really cared. With all the C-level changes, mandatory shutdown days that you're informed of VIA E-MAIL, things seem rocky at best.

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Cons

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Pros

I work with diverse and supportive people. Teams and leaders demonstrate the will to respond to worker needs with kindness and respect. On the operational level, teams are highly flexible and adapt quickly to changes when provided proper support. Work-life balance is high priority for the people I interact with.

Cons

The company has difficulty holding on to talent in tech fields since a good chunk of the focus has to be allocated to art/design and production instead. CEOs come and go every few years, leading to instability. For some teams, the process remains overly complex and inefficient because of misalignments between leadership/engineering and ops team users. No formal humanist policy around AI & robotics yet.

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