Shutterstock Employee Reviews
Out of 129 Shutterstock employee reviews, 57% were positive. The remaining 43% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Shutterstock improve their work culture. The HR team, with 87% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Shutterstock compared to all other departments at the company. The Sales team offered the most constructive feedback, with 37% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Innovative team, well organized and has great connection to the employees.
Flexible, Work life balance and perks
I have a lot Of faith in the vision of the current leadership. They are taking SSTK to a new level.
Review from HR Dept
Everyone is respectful and kind
Capacity to change the business model when needed.
Review from Sales Dept
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Chief People Officer has to start influencing against random vendetta firing and all the layoffs. The C-Suite is all from Vroom or Thomson Reuters, totally incestuous.
Review from HR Dept
Respect for employees, more honesty, less fakeness
The CEO is a mediocre white male who has been promoted to his level of incompetence. He is running this company into the ground and the sychophants who report to him either have Stockholm Syndrome or outrageously high RSU grants.
Need to overhaul and start over.
They're beyond help. I'd normally say they should treat their employees as humans, but that ship has sailed. They are amoral psychopaths who have one goal--to pump the stock price using whatever means possible.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
The healthcare is pretty good, and 401K match is very good.
Review from HR Dept
401K 50% match after 2 years
Golden parachute ten thousand stalk proce
Healthcare is Aetna and it's pretty good.
401K match is very good and healthcare isn't bad in the grand scheme of things.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Since Covid most of our benefits are cut. They should bring them back and allow us to work from the office.
No money is worth coming to work each day and facing emotional and mental abuse.
Pid a fair percentage for all of our work, not to mention the expenses to get the content in the first place.
Compensation is fair, but the constant mental anguish and fear aren't worth any amount of money.
Fairness and some respect for others.
What are some of the best things about your team?
Good people earnestly trying to turn this sinking ship around.
That they stick it out despite the madness alongside me.
Those who could not or would not leave face a common enemy--our management and so we find ways to stick together and help each other where our executive team will not.
The on the ground teams are actually great and a lot of fun and friendly people at first. But time there makes folks bitter and resentful and uninspired. People are burnt out and when it becomes about collecting a paycheck when you are overworked, people contribute less and it makes work difficult
Despite the incompetence of the executive team, the rank and file are wonderful to work with.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
things are too siloed and no one talks to eachother.
I shouldn't blame them, but the place has no soul and therefore, no one really connects. No one is having fun and I don't mean ping pong table fun, I mean occasionally enjoying their colleagues and/or the work they are doing.
Coworkers are fine...they are in the same boat.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
a lot of good people work here.
They have great benefits, meeting free Wednesday and summer Fridays.
Review from HR Dept
good food and sweets and coffee
The costumers are very friendly
Content is a really nice product to sell - creativity !
Review from Sales Dept
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
The place needs more stability and to really care about their employees. At this point they don't.
I have been there long enough, through 3 CEOs, to think that it's not fixable. It's rotten to the core.
There needs to be a reset and HR/Exec Team need to listen to its people. Until they come out of the vaccuum they operate in, we are all screwed. More good people will jump ship and things will continue to worsen.
Learn from the Wizard of Oz. Give the head of Technology a brain, the head of Product a heart, and the head of Marketing courage.
Get rid of toxic executives driving away the good people and bringing in sycophants with political loyalty but no experience and no intelligence.
What did you like most about the interview process?
The recruiter was very nice and communicative.
Review from HR Dept
I liked the view from the Empire State building
I got lots of communication from the recruiter, which is rare.
It was efficient, they didn't waste my time
Everyone seemed nice, but boy did they show their true colors once they trapped you.
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Fewer interviews would be nice, but overall had a good experience through the process which is why I took the job even though online reviews weren't great.
Move faster. Takes way too long to get offers.
far too many interviews in the process
What makes you most happy at work?
Is love people and friends are coming to me thanks for a wonderful deeds the best life from God
Submitting photos makes me happy
To empower world's storytellers with creativity
Review from Sales Dept
relaxed culture, fun environment. usually fast-paced and the day goes quickly.
Review from HR Dept
I love what I do so this comment may be less helpful than desired. I appreciate the team I work on and each of their work ethic.
Review from HR Dept
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
The eCommerce business (core) is dying, AI is coming in, and they are scrambling but haven't figured out how to replace it.
The culture is terrible and the fact that they fire leaders at the drop of hat makes everyone on edge and also, because they leave in a hurry, the next person in that role has little to no institutional knowledge, so the hamster wheel keeps spinning.
Lack of support and menthoring programs to improve performance, lack of sale enablement and customer ready materials
Start at the top and wipe out most of the Senior Leadership team (the General Counsel can stay.) They create goals that are impossible to achieve and then the finger pointing starts all the way down the line as to why they missed their targets. Pure insanity.
Its impossible to know whats going right because you never know whats happening at SSTK.
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