Getty Images reviews

3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

(662 total reviews)
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Craig Peters

76% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Getty Images has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 662 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Getty Images employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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662 reviews
4.0
Nov 6, 2013

Agile company

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Pros

Committed to Agile - constant small releases, flexible deadlines (mostly), pair programming. Unit tests are a company fetish. The code quality is generally very good, with a few legacy beasts left to slay. All my bosses have been developers who decided to transition into management, so they actually understand the work I do. This is true for most of the managers in the tech side of the organization. Work-life balance - everyone leaves at 5pm and there is no pressure to stay later (unlike many other tech companies I've worked for). My team goes out to lunch together most days, often there is beer involved. Sometimes lunches run long and no one cares. There are fun company events every few months. Location is in the ID with lots of lunch options if you like Asian cuisine. Normal freebies for a tech company - coffee, espresso, tea, soda. Also have free bread. Very close to trains/buses.

Cons

"No silos" is a motto that sounds nice until you end up having to do extremely specialized tasks for which you have no experience or skill. It seems like a waste of the company's money to have senior developers building test databases for example. Too much upheaval, reorgs, etc. This results in products being orphaned when the team that maintained them are disbanded. Salary is slightly lower than average (but you get more per hour because there is zero overtime) Some software work is being outsourced to Argentina, with mixed results.

2.0
Oct 7, 2013
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Pros

-Work life balance is pretty good. -Interesting industry. -Good office location, nice layout for an open concept space. -Lots of HR sponsored parties and events. -The culture is less aggressive than at other tech companies. -The pay is pretty good, but there are no bonuses and raises are low.

Cons

-Constant reorgs (3 different managers in one year) -Senior leadership is too involved. They need to stop meddling and let their teams do the work. -Senior leadership lacks an overall strategy. -No culture of communication, news is only shared with subsets of individuals. Team meetings /all-hands are rare. -There are a lot of old timers that tend to be pretty closely knit. If you're not in with the right crowd here, it can have an impact on your career.

2.0
Aug 26, 2013

Too much chaos

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Pros

Nice people Sense of empowerment (Director level and above)

Cons

Senior management Under-investment for too many years has put us behind the competition Unrealistic expectations by senior management who don't truly understand online business

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