Not A Good Place for mid-Senior Level - Systems Engineer Shutterfly Employee Review

1.0
Aug 15, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Brand Value in E-commerce Space Perks : Free Snacks, Occasional Beer/Food

Cons

This perspective will be subjective as I have worked for one particular department which was not to develop front end webpage or web related technologies. However, general picture is Shutterfly has more managers than Individual Contributors and a manager can survive year after year without doing any real work. What is worse, your manager will be very reluctant to think of/implement any new technology/design/concept even using existing tools/stack !!! All your manager wants is to run business as usual, come to office at 10, leave at 5 and hammering same faulty system year after year. For people who wants to learn and build a career with new technologies, this is like jumping off a skyscraper!

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
May 30, 2026
Recommend
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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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