Shutterfly reviews

Shutterfly in Shakopee, MN does not care about the well being of their employees. I have seen people sick at their desks that they wouldn't allow to go home without threatening them with a point system that was completely unrealistic. More then 15 points and you are gone. If you're one minute late due to traffic or a family emergency you get a point. If you're sick you get three points a day. Pray you do not get the flu because you're out of luck if you're out for more then a few days. The funniest thing is they have this point system in place but it varies around the building. Customer care is very strict about it but in production it's barely a thing at all. So some temps come in super late and no one bats an eye at it. It really upset me when I heard that. Why was I sitting at my desk sick while people downstairs didn't have to stress about it at all. Seems very unfair. I had a lot of close friends in the company and heard so many horrible stories I cringe just thinking about them. If you get injured on the job you're screwed because you're blacklisted forever. They'll bully you out. Actually bullying is a huge part of the Shutterfly way it would seem. Mandatory overtime. Why Shutterfly thinks it's okay for people to work 72 hour weeks during the holiday season is just beyond us all. If you love the holidays and your family don't work at Shutterfly for the holidays. You will not be allowed to take any time off even if you give months notice. That's insane. Shutterfly also likes to dangle opportunities to hopeful employees to get them to dance like their puppet. I'd love to write a novel on this one alone calling out all the managers but honestly it's not even worth the time. In short if you're thinking about working for Shutterfly don't do it. There is other production companies out there that will treat you like a human being.

This perspective will be subjective as I have worked for one particular department which was not to develop front end webpage or web related technologies. However, general picture is Shutterfly has more managers than Individual Contributors and a manager can survive year after year without doing any real work. What is worse, your manager will be very reluctant to think of/implement any new technology/design/concept even using existing tools/stack !!! All your manager wants is to run business as usual, come to office at 10, leave at 5 and hammering same faulty system year after year. For people who wants to learn and build a career with new technologies, this is like jumping off a skyscraper!