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      3.1

      47% would recommend to a friend

      (1,236 total reviews)
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      Emily Whittaker

      8% approve of CEO

      35% positive business outlook

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      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.3

      Work/Life balance

      3.1

      Culture & values

      2.9

      Compensation and benefits

      2.8

      Career opportunities

      2.6

      Senior management

      Shutterfly has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,236 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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      4.0
      Jul 26, 2008

      4.25 overall - can-do culture, good products, appreciative mgmt, skillful colleagues, so-so compensation

      Can't say (i'm the only one)
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      can-do culture: not a lot of whining about the difficulty of challenges or changes in plans. Almost everybody just wants to get the work done. doesn't feel hierarchical: though org chart has ~5 levels, more-than-average autonomy is granted lower levels. implementation decisions and actions tend to happen quickly. sometimes strategic decisions take a while, however (not unusually long). Genuine enthusiasm for products: employees truly care about the appeal, utility, and quality of the products. Genuine appreciation for customers and community: getting customer feedback, good or bad, is important to almost everyone. Charitable activities are extremely well supported by execs and employees. Quality of colleagues: Pretty good overall. A few superstars, lots of strong not-quite-all-starts, very few losers. Nice people. Freedom to take initiative and take on new responsibilities: See a problem or opportunity that should be addressed, then make it yours! Very little territorial behavior.

      Cons

      Most everything above average, no true downsides, just a few areas of mediocrity. Total compensation package isn't bad -- hey, this is an internet company in the Silicon Valley, after all -- but it's only average competitively. (If wages and options are so-so, at least the frills are better than average -- food, events, etc.) Some wastefulness due to legacy systems and processes in some departments. Some typical bottleneck/SPOF problems in engineering due to over-dependence on veteran programmers. Recent cost-cutting due to economic slowdown is perfectly reasonable, but sometimes not ideally even-handed. These imperfections, as a group, are far less serious than any prior employer in my 10 years of e-commerce experience.

      2.0
      Jul 10, 2008

      Could be a great place to work, but isn't

      Senior manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great products and plenty of smart people there.

      Cons

      No clear path for promotion or advancement. Can be political, and this affects people's promotions. Some managers are good, others are terrible. They don't really do anything about the bad ones, and don't really reward the good ones. Lack of vision or strategy causes frequent fire drills.

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