Poor leadership with no accountability - Senior Software Engineer Shutterfly Employee Review

2.0
4 Mar 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Most of your coworkers are amazing and hard-working individuals. They do tend to use more modern technologies.

Cons

The leadership at Shutterfly made very poor decisions in 2022 and instead of taking responsibility for it, we ended up with large layoffs affecting many great people. They also took away all bonuses and all merit and cost-of-living raises (effectively a 10% pay cut). The CEO had the audacity to tell the employees "You didn't get bonuses because you didn't deserve it". For the future, the same leaders said they are "very confident" that 2023 will be better. Unfortunately, their only plan is to cut costs (staff) and then just hope. Meanwhile, they expanded the executive staff and said the employees need to give them a few years before judging their performances. This was said when many great people with decades of experience with Shutterfly were laid off.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
30 May 2026
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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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