gone to shitterstock - Engineer GIPHY Employee Review

2.0
Sep 26, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

* was a great place to work until shutterstock acquistion * remaining colleagues that are there are smart and great to work with

Cons

* all the engineering leaders that left are replaced with shutterstock middle management team that knows nothing about the company or engineering and makes terrible decisions * terrible benefits that were replaced after the acquisition. any good pay was grandfathered in before the acquisition. new joiners will not get anything equivalent to what it was.

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5.0
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Pros

Great team of people, loved working with my team.

Cons

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1.0
Jan 28, 2026
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Pros

*Smart folks, if you can smell the good ones from the bad ones *Fun product (It's GIFs!) *Lots of internal opportunities and movement. If you're talented, you can move between departments and teams.

Cons

*Weird culture to navigate if you're a newcomer *Company strategy is effectively a single ad product that no one wants *Baffling leadership decisions, including elevating leaders with multiple complaints + record of sloppy work *Low morale *If you need your competitor's API to go kaput to survive as a company...

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