Shutterfly is not a place to work - Principal Design Engineer Shutterfly Employee Review

1.0
Jun 4, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great product, some great people, good perks like free photobooks. Not much work pressure because there is not much to work for.

Cons

Bad HR policy like juniors are hired at higher salary than existing employees, so we have a bunch of new hires pulling higher salary than their supervisors. Management has no respect for your ability and contribution. The technology side is the worst offender. The management team of technolofy side is filled with industry rejects, social rejects and acad failures - completely incompetent. But you will grow fast if you watch soap operas,movies and play video games.

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5.0
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Recommend
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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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