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3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

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Craig Peters

76% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

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1.0
Jan 8, 2020

Illegal Firing

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Pros

Good benefits and decent pay

Cons

Bad communication, shady practices, fired for having a disability

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Getty Images Response
6y
Hi, I so appreciate your candid feedback. We are committed to fair and equitable employment practices and your description of your experience is certainly not consistent with that. I am concerned and welcome a conversation with you to address your concerns about your experience. You can reach me at lizanne.vaughan@gettyimages.com. I hope you'll reach out so we can discuss. Kind regards, Lizanne
1.0
Nov 14, 2019
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Pros

Office is great location. Friendly people. Unlimited snacks and drinks. Space is great and has a bar. Flexible work life balance. CEO seems to care. Great benefits

Cons

Senior leaders are great at managing up and don't pay attention to their teams. Promotions lack diversity and inclusion. Senior leaders don't have basic training and use offensive behavior to control their teams. Middle management left trying to communication to the rest of us. Still a male club and leaders don't want anything to do with lower level employees except when it is survey time. Growth is rare and when it happens, its about friendship and buddies are promoted. Some senior leaders do not understand or know the business and some are disconnected and don't care. HR doesn't care and manages up. Tried to get career guidance and was ignored 3 times. When they fire people, they don't communicate it and are not loyal.

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Getty Images Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to share your concerns, especially as a current employee %E2%80%93 hopefully we have time to work together to improve things from your perspective! Diversity and growth are things we talk about (and care about) a lot at Getty Images, but we do understand that visible changes don't always occur as quickly as people would like. Since gender specifically is mentioned, I can share that for the first half of 2019, more than half of our new hires were women. More than half of all promotions since 2017 have been female, and our female leadership population in particular is up from 2017 to 2019. While the numbers may vary across our different geographies and teams, overall we are making progress toward a more balanced gender representation at all levels of the company. Aside from diversity awareness, all newly hired or promoted leaders go through basic leadership training internally; and our team ensures continued education and conversation with focused trainings and communications through the year on topics from transformational leadership, change leadership, and performance ratings bias awareness. If you would like to talk more in-depth about any of your concerns or have suggestions of where we could place additional focus, please reach out to one of your local leaders or anyone on the HR team (in any location, doesn't have to be your current office!) - including our D&I Program Manager.
3.0
Sep 18, 2019
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Pros

Global company with offices around the world Great leadership principles that emphasize learning Friendly co-workers eager to socialize both within and outside work Convenient location, close to restaurants and transportation Events that emphasize growth (hackathons, open all-hands) Free bread and sparking water

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Monolithic, legacy application: Difficult to impossible to bring in new ideas or practices without toppling a house of cards. Only recently moved to AWS, but still uses tech like AngularJS. Top heavy: Engineers, PMs , etc. with a 'senior' title outnumber others 4:1. Lack of communication: Devs are to fill tickets and not ask about the 'why' behind business decisions. Not much cross-functional collaboration. Somewhat of a tech bro culture: Liquor bottles/kegs in the open around the office. "Required fun" events like golf, ping pong, and video game tournaments. Lackluster compensation plan: Especially compared to other Seattle-based companies.

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