Job Huggers + Acquisition = 👎 - Anonymous employee GIPHY Employee Review

3.0
Dec 17, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- It was a great place to work before it was acquired by Shutterstock - Depending on who you work with – great people

Cons

- Its been a mess post acquisition, so many leadership shifts - There are some job huggers there that arguably don't do much - I don't think they know what they're doing or how to make money so their solution was to lay off people

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Pros

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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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