Pros
There are not pros at shutterstock: read below.
Cons
Do not walk away, RUN away from this toxic company. The board doesn’t care what happens to the company, why should they when the ceo owns most of it? Does the CEO care? Nope, he’s already a billionaire and is CHECKED OUT. Okay.. does the management team care? Maybe, but they are INCOMPETENT. All of them are from slow growth old-school companies like Revlon cosmetics?? Seriously? Not exactly ex-google or apple pedigree. One person in particular is named Steven Berns: the cfo/coo, he has created a 27 step process for promoting a single person, no staplers are purchased, no offer letters signed, no one eats, breathes or THINKS without his ok. Hear that?? >>>No one thinks without his ok<<< Steven Berns giveth and Steven Berns taketh away. Blessed be the name, Steven Berns. Zero empowerment. American company? More like a Soviet company. People under the age of 40 must* feel empowered to do their jobs. Shutterstock can’t empower their people because they DO NOT trust their people. Shutterstock only wants mindless pawns. Which is exactly what they have. I have never in my career met a greater gathering such disenfranchised and simultaneously maliciously opportunistic people. Everyone who has bothered to stay at shutterstock exists to just take as much money from them as possible and run. No one cares; this place is toxic to millennials. Anyone in their 20s or 30s who really cares about their work has left long ago. For comic effect, try searching linkedin for 'past not currently at shutterstock' - that will tell you all that you need to know. FUTURE CANDIDATES AND CURRENT EMPLOYEES: ask yourself! Do you want to work at a company with 10th rate management? Do you want to spend your valuable time helping a checked out founder? Do the other damning reviews below concern you? (2.7stars out of 5? 38% approve of CEO???) There are plenty of great companies to work for in the world, Shutterstock is dead. It will always be dead. No amount of praying at its grave will change that. So if someone asks you to work there... tell them that Steven Berns toxic reputation precedes them and that you’d rather rot in hell than take a job there.. because trust me we’d rather rot in hell than stay here too.