Great people, okay work environment. - Systems Architect Shutterfly Employee Review

3.0
Nov 22, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Most of the people are wonderful to work with, some solid products, and who doesn't love photos? Work / life balance is what you make it.

Cons

Sometimes mediocre product launches, quite a bit of technical debt from a spaghetti mess of old code, old systems never die, lack of connectivity from executive leadership to the rank and file. No clear paths for career growth outside the regular tracks, no 401k matching. Difficult to recruit tech new hires when competing with pure tech companies.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
May 30, 2026
Recommend
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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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