Could be a great place to work, but isn't - Senior Manager Shutterfly Employee Review

2.0
Jul 10, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great products and plenty of smart people there.

Cons

No clear path for promotion or advancement. Can be political, and this affects people's promotions. Some managers are good, others are terrible. They don't really do anything about the bad ones, and don't really reward the good ones. Lack of vision or strategy causes frequent fire drills.

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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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