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      3.4

      52% would recommend to a friend

      (661 total reviews)
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      Craig Peters

      76% approve of CEO

      39% positive business outlook

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      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.0

      Senior management

      2.8

      Career opportunities

      Getty Images has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 661 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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      661 reviews
      3.0
      Nov 13, 2013

      OK, but could use improvement

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Very casual, fun environment. Artistic nice atmosphere. Fun events for employees. Excellent opportunity to learn a lot about international aspects of business.

      Cons

      Way way way too much workload. Not enough staff to keep up with super high demands. Probably THE largest and most unrealistic workload I have ever encountered. Unprofessional cliques in management. It's not about performance, but who you are "friends' with.

      4.0
      Nov 6, 2013

      Agile company

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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.

      1.0
      Oct 29, 2013

      No commitment to creative excellence. A very sad place.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Coworkers can make work enjoyable, and fun once in a while. Office kitchen perks are ok and the coffee is delicious! The PR machine is solid here because they really lead you to believe that Getty is some amazing, progressive working environment, and technologically advanced too... but sadly, it's run just like traditional retail.

      Cons

      Senior managers to mid-level managers all have favorites - and they're an extremely stodgy lot too. They lack any real leadership skills and pride themselves on process and who-knows-who. Terribly big egos with no heart who LOVE to discuss low-level control issues. It's a media sweatshop for dead enders. Bright, efficient, happy people need not apply here.

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