Politics and Incompetence go hand in hand. - Anonymous employee Shutterfly Employee Review

2.0
Jun 17, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great people to work with, true work/life balance, and generous product discount.

Cons

Politics in every department, mostly due to inflated egos. Executive team is clueless on how to manage the expanding footprint of each brand, ex: Treat. Finance folks running a stationery product seems misaligned. Lack of career advancement. Dedicated and hardworking employees are passed up for promotion. Higher ups promoted more regularly than employees at SFLY.

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Cons

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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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