PRINTFUL Reviews

2.9

39% would recommend to a friend

(235 total reviews)
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Alex Saltonstall

23% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

PRINTFUL has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 235 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The PRINTFUL employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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235 reviews
1.0
30 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- You can learn a lot of managerial theories. Whatever hyped fad will appear in the horizon, a quarter later we will be implementing it, and quarter later dropping as not working. But there is another one coming, so you will test them all. - If you like to blindly follow, you will like it here. Nobody was fired here for doing things fast but without thinking. Management lacks domain knowledge so much, that they will believe that if they couldn't foresee this obvious no-go blocker, nobody could. So you are safe, and maybe even advance as their puppet, if you will stay silent when needed and praise their ideas as genious ones.

Cons

- No adults in the rooom, after a decade we are still a hippie startup (just with 2000+ people) that should be able somehow ignore the past, the current and being able to pivot on whim, as we are still searching for a holy grail, cause the one we found that allowed us to grow is supposedly not big enough. So we are frequently re-organizing our structures into another mutation of spotify model as a solution to chaos and lack of growth. - There is a feeling of superiority from the management - that you are inferior to them, less intelligent, less knowledgable, failing to their "management tricks" etc. This is breaking trust and cooperation, as if you want to advance you have to join their "club", so yesterday's friend is your enemy tomorrow, and it is better not to stand out by accident and land on the blacklist. - They stopped to care about people, so people are doing now just 9 to 5. management is making then a pikachu face why we don't grow in this economy as fast as AI companies, and as a solution mass fires people to improve "something". So merged company lost already lots of domain knowledge from two big rounds of firing, there is nobody for maintenance, but it doesn't matter - we need to go faster... but not clever. Fresh yesterday's strategic initiatives are axed, customers left alone, but nobody cares, as a new shiny things is on the horizon.

1.0
18 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Honestly, there aren't many benefits. You get the standard health insurance of course, but other than that, nothing really, unless you are in office. For growth, learning budgets are a thing, but it's mid-April and last I asked my manager, it still wasn't finalized, so can't even use that "perk".

Cons

*Management (SLT - SLT+2/3 levels) is of poor quality. Poorly thought out decisions, which are put into effect quickly and then reversed on a whim just as quick are a norm. *People are quitting and leaving en masse either from the company as a whole or to different departments even if it means going to a lower position and taking a pay cut. I cannot speak for all departments, but this seems especially prevalent in the growth department, specifically around teams and contributors to CS operations with quite a few big long-tenure exits and jumps to different teams in recent months. *The pay is low and complaints about this are met with the classic "budget" and "market-rate" buzzwords. Funny, because these budget constraints don't exist when it's time to donate to charity and we are talking big sums. Interesting priorities... *Lack of fairness is prevalent. Management does whatever it wants in promotions and hirings, even breaking rules, and this has damaged morale and trust in leadership, even if it is not openly brought up. After all, word of mouth, people talk amongst themselves. There have been some big incidents and call outs because of this but they have led nowhere, and the cycle continues.

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