Working at Shutterfly is not always as good as it appears. Once the curtain is pulled back, all is revealed. - Anonymous employee Shutterfly Employee Review

1.0
Mar 31, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are a lot of positives about Shutterfly: good benefits, free product, nice physical environment, enthusiastic employees, and good salaries.

Cons

Upper management does not have concern for employees, morale, and work / life balance. The focus is only on products and providing good service to external customers but not the employees who are doing the work. They take advantage of temporary workers on a long-term basis and dangle the carrot of potentially becoming an employee of Shutterfly, which rarely happens. Shutterfly lacks basic corporate infrastructure on many levels. Unfortunately, due to the significance of the con's Shutterfly deserves a very dissatisfied rating.

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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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