A bureaucratic machine with bad company culture - Software Developer Shutterfly Employee Review

1.0
Apr 3, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

(Very) Slow software development processes leaves you lots and lots of free time to do stuff in your personal life unrelated to your job.

Cons

Your brain will quickly deteriorate as you find yourself absorbed in a bureaucratic "Borg" where you are nothing but one (very) replaceable cogwheel in a very big inefficient machine. Double digit of developers spend weeks and months on features that can be implemented by two experienced developers in a single sprint.

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5.0
Apr 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great company to work for

Cons

No cons, excellent place to work

4.0
May 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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