Run away - Software Engineer Shutterfly Employee Review

1.0
Mar 29, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Awesome work life balance because no work

Cons

1) Small changes in UI will be celebrated, get used to it 2) Product team has no clue on what they want to do 3) Technical stack is a joke still a monolith. CTO talking about micro-services but did not accomplish much in the last 2 years. 4) No diversity 5) Off-shore dev center. Company hiring more in cheaper places.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
May 30, 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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