Getty Images reviews

3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

(662 total reviews)
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Craig Peters

76% approve of CEO

39% 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
3.0
Jul 9, 2011
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Pros

everybody out the door by 5pm very low pressure - 0 urgency to get anything done on time great location and comfortable office people and personalities are generally agreeable and entirely unremarkable

Cons

Management spends months talking about product roadmaps but not even the simplest projects get done. The site looks and works exactly the same as it did 4-5 years ago Co-workers are unmotivated - there are several people who have been there 7+ years with no promotions and no aspirations to go beyond their current roles and responsibilities The peer review seems more like an opportunity to backstab co-workers than provide constructive well-rounded criticism. as a previous reviewer mentioned, employees often 'get disappeared' and are simply never seen again.

2.0
Dec 29, 2010
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Pros

If you are lucky enough to have a great manager who does not micro manage you to death then your experience should be fine but unfortunately great managers are short and few ! They have a lot of " YES MEN and WOMEN " so if you can tolerate that then use Getty as a stepping stone to something else .

Cons

Not a lot of sound decisions were made through out my time working for them . They ( upper management ) tend to get it after the fourth or fifth time but after alot of money was spent and tons of great talent being laid off . Senior management tends to treat the sales teams much differently from the rest of the non sales departments to the point it seems like a caste system . They have gotten rid of most of the people who know the ins and outs of the product /site and policy ( i am speaking in a technology/content/function ) and they love to outsource as much as possible ( good luck with clients needing to speak to someone for support - sales teams are great but they tend to hire them straight out of college and with no digital photography experience and sales teams are swamped with information so they used to rely on content teams for assistance but thats none existent now ) . Departments dont share information with each other and they are very territorial about that information , causing redundancy of work .

1.0
Nov 3, 2010
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Pros

Benefits were fine. Getty did a great job with offering employees training and coaching. They also dominated the market, so job performance was easy.

Cons

Senior management creates a hostile environment. Mr. Klein doesn't treat the employees as adults, You could bank on the company doing the very opposite of what Jonathon Klein speaks about to employees. It's a very "kool-aid" robotic culture.

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