great growing experience both professionally and personally - Senior Software Engineer Shutterfly Employee Review

4.0
Mar 7, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

the perks, benefits and compensation are good, people stay for a while and enjoy working there, most people are respectful and professional, the company is in good financial health, the Shutterfly printing scale has enabled it to become and remain a market leader

Cons

The organization is going through a restructuring as it tries to find a foothold in the new web and mobile markets and there are a lot of opinions and politics that create factions more than groups of individuals. Some have said there is a loss in confidence in engineering. Projects have been rebooted several times and some failed to meet goals, deadlines or expectations. The application core is very monolithic and has accumulated 10 years of code and testing, documentation, and process varies across the organization as a result so does quality. Some improvements have been made to fix core problems and there is a slow march forward. Meanwhile leadership is buying solutions that fill in strategic gaps.

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5.0
Jun 2, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Laid back, everyone on my 3rd shift were helpful and polite.

Cons

Not being able to go full time.

4.0
May 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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