Great potential, but.... - Anonymous employee Shutterfly Employee Review

2.0
Oct 26, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

*Love the products *Benefits package is pretty good. The only thing missing is 401k matching. *For exempt/non-manufacturing employees, work-life balance is good. *Driven company-when it wants to implement new ideas/products/methods and there is management buy-in, nothing stops this company

Cons

*Politics play an important part of success; if you do not win people over and become part of the clique, no matter your expertise you will not be listened to. *The pace is fast and sometimes frenetic. *Sometimes the philosophy is to implement now, figure it out later. Can cause additional workload that could be prevented by getting it right before implementation.

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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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