Going in the right direction - Software Engineering Manager Shutterfly Employee Review

5.0
10 Oct 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Company going through culture change of being a technology company which happens to be in eCommerce (vs. an eCommerce company which happens to use technology) - Increased communication in all levels of management up to the CEO on a timely basis, with brown bags, fireside chats and online chat forums - People are understanding and respects one another - Management allows for work-life balance to equally performing staff members - Upper management going through positive changes focusing on results and retention

Cons

- There are certain groups adjusting to the positive changes, find ways to train a new set of mentality to enable fresh ways of pushing the Shutterfly 3.0 vision - Staffing churn suffered from prior management styles, good to see we are actively reviewing ways to retain talented staff with leadership training - Exciting technology is sometimes buried in the works, find ways to communicate these out to employees and the public

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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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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