Vantaggi
Perks are good. You get Shutterfly products twice a year, including mugs, stickers, photo-books, and more. Beautiful offices in Redwood City and Santa Clara. Free snacks and drinks.
Svantaggi
Extremely political. All is managed by product management, just a few people deciding the direction and execution of the entire company. There is no room for innovation. Developer ideas do not count, all is decided top-down. Even engineering management has no voice. They just follow direct instructions from product management. People are constantly leaving due to this. Even trivial ideas can't ever come from the development team. This company is a retail company, that does not understand how to manage technology. Everything is about numbers, and measuring incremental (proven) revenue each initiative will bring. Forget about R&D. This is not a company to work for if you love innovation and new stuff. The company is restructuring itself and everything done is just refactoring of current code to unify the multiple platforms. Would not recommend this company to others.