Shutterfly reviews

Product organization has become a spineless group who serve at the mercy of the GMs. GMs are so involved in the day-to-day that business strategy becomes watered down to copying what the next closest competitor is doing. In a GM versus PM cage match, GM wins every time. PM org is basically beat down and largely has no energy left to care. Innovation does not mean the same as it does to the rest of Silicon Valley. At Shutterfly, innovation equates to "copy what they are doing" with a different page layout. So many people involved in decision making that what could be a great idea ends up being a mediocre middle ground because the teams are trying to satisfy everyone's feedback and opinions. Though many will say it is a collaborative environment, there is an undercurrent of blame that ripples through the organization. Something goes wrong and there's a witch hunt that is positioned as a way to help us all do better. Specialties is the closest place to get out for lunch. Meetings all day.

Engineering Management is messed up badly. If you see from last year all the good managers and awesome engineers have left in the redwood city office due to bad environment and working culture. Most of Engineering Managers are totally hands-off and does not even have managerial skills. On Tiny prints side is even worst scenarios due one of worst engineering Managers I have come across and seen till date.... I am also seeing lots politics is also happening in QA Engineering now as well so anybody joining in QA good luck and I would not advice to join QA department now for sure...