Avoid - management team are toxic - Photo Editor Shutterstock Employee Review

If your looking at Editorial roles thread carefully as the current Editorial Management team have no experience in the industry (previous editorial management have all been sacked). Just over a year ago the editorial team in Los Angeles was made redundant and a team was set up in Dublin which management have now made redundant to set up a team in the US again! Editorial is losing serious money and the plan for the future is to focus on major red carpet events with company photographers while automating everything else. However editorial photography is a creative industry where manual image selection and the editing of pictures/captions is necessary for quality control with the majority of contributors. You can’t automate the creative arts. The current management team decisions are being driven by one employee who has their ear by highlighting colleague mistakes to throw them under the bus and make himself look good. He was rewarded with a promotion. I have no faith in the current leadership to turn things around especially given the current climate for editorial photography. It also doesn’t help my opinion of Shutterstock that they support and foster censorship in China. In editorial one agency supplying pictures which are then syndicated by Shutterstock is basically the propaganda arm of the Chinese government. Also be aware that positive reviews are written by HR employees as the company are now finding it difficult to hire people due to the all the negative reviews.