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      Shutterfly reviews

      3.1

      45% would recommend to a friend

      (1,238 total reviews)
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      Emily Whittaker

      8% approve of CEO

      33% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.2

      Work/Life balance

      3.0

      Culture & values

      2.9

      Compensation and benefits

      2.7

      Career opportunities

      2.6

      Senior management

      Shutterfly has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,238 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Shutterfly employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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      1K reviews
      1.0
      Sep 6, 2015

      Software Engineer

      Software engineer - enterprise applications
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It was a good company and team to work for until the recent management change.

      Cons

      The new management does not understand anything about systems but they make decisions and everyone needs to adhere to them. They did let go many from the team and they did lay off many from the team as well. No value for anyone who works in the team. There is no room for any of the team members feedback. More like a corporate dictatorship now. Its just filled with pure politics now rather than the actual job. No room for any career growth.

      4.0
      Aug 4, 2015

      So far pretty good, but beginning to fade

      Marketing - customer acquisition team
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great work life balance, really fun and relaxed people to work with, constantly challenging and innovating. Depending on experience, salaries seems to be OK. Benefits are pretty decent (though starting to look a bit stale compared to what other Bay Area companies are offering). Most people generally like working with each other which makes it a pleasure to come in everyday. Recognition - most people have heard about our products and love it. Looks good on resume. No jerk policy - as far as I've seen, never has anybody been overly disrespectful, rude, or tyrannical to anybody. People are treated kindly and overall managers communicate very well with their subordinates. Q4 - as tough as it is, it's kind of thrilling and bonding as you're spending so much time with your co-workers (becomes like family) and knowing every day there's so much at stake makes you give it your all.

      Cons

      Unfortunately the culture that made this place so great seems to be fading. There is more of a work work work mentality being pushed on everybody, and it's getting more competitive and cutthroat. People are starting to feel very spread thin. Managers getting more political which is sad. Main cons are - for a company so into moms and families, our maternity leave benefits are quite lacking. Also,executive management is a boys club and lacks diversity. It's strange how out of touch old white men in suits are with the rest of the company. Both of the Bay Area office locations are not really ideal, prepare for a tough commute no matter where you live. Lastly, there is a lot of bureaucracy here when it comes to promotions. Not sure why they make it so difficult.

      3.0
      Jul 19, 2015

      Good Work life balance, relaxed work atmosphere but

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Shutterfly has surprisingly good work life balance and joyful atmosphere depending upon which team you work for. I have less idea about manufacturing and work in lab but Creative Design, IOPS, new re-architecture team, NodeJS/Javascript UI developer roles, etc are very good opportunities in SFLY.

      Cons

      CEO is smart ,CTO is smart but most VPs, Directors, Architects(there are one good one I know but majority just suck) and Managers are too dumb and are afraid of being exposed to CTO,CEO so end up hiring their subordinates(mid level managers) who are dumb and these directors and mangers keep constantly fighting with each other. Many new developers may find it easy unless you are directly replacing the old folks but for some old folks who own the massive size of monolithic codebase(think of same humongous jar library coded between 2003-1015 running inside font end backend and middle tier server pools) struggle all alone in keeping up with new feature releases.

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