VistaPrint.com Reviews

Pros

The people I work with are all incredibly intelligent, skilled in what they do, and a pleasure to work with. The projects I work on are all interesting, relevant and important to the progression of our website and company.

Cons

Vistaprint is very selective when it comes to new hires which often times leads to positions being open for a long time and teams potentially being understaffed.

Pros

great pay, great benefits, products you can support, innovative

Cons

How you are treated depends on the department you work for and the managment. The company boasts how they give employees a lot of flexibility, but the department management can set their own rules and they are often personal decisions, not business decisions. Not everyone gets treated fairly or has the same opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

Getting a pulse on how employees really feel about working there and how they are treated needs to happen more often.

Pros

Free beer on Fridays was great

Cons

My manager was a bit aloof but great.

Pros

Vistaprint hires a lot of recent college graduates, so if you're looking to start your career, this is a decent place to do it - just be sure you are learning the right lessons from the right people. The pay and benefits are excellent. You get an extra 4 weeks paid time off every 5th year of service, which you have to take in one large chunk.

Cons

The organization is split between marketing and development. The marketing team is the "client" of the development organization, which means that faced with an insistent business owner and a terrible idea, an engineer has no choice but to implement, no matter how terrible the data might indicate the idea is. In fact, in some cases bad decisions on the part of marketing (which resulted in measurable losses) was blamed on software

There seems to be a fundamental lack of understanding that both the marketing and development organizations have the same ultimate goal in mind - the success of Vistaprint. This is likely to be an ongoing barrier to Vistaprint's success as the development and marketing organizations continue to distance themselves from each other.

The organization claims to attract "only the best and brightest", but there are plenty of dull ones and they only seem to be growing in numbers. The perception is that Vistaprint needs the bodies to get the work done (due to the growth of the company), but there is definitely some dead weight that could be unloaded.

Pros

Pay and Benifits are excellent. Some groups are very good in treating their employees. QA automation & DSS groups are awesome.

Cons

Watch out where you are going to. Some groups are pretty nasty to hang in. People get treated without respect in some groups and they set you for failure.

Pros

We hire the best of the best, everyone is so knowledgeable and everyday is a new learning experience. The people are awesome.

Cons

I think some managers are less competent than others and you sometimes need to take you career promotions in your own hands.

Advice to Senior Management

Company is doing a great job, I am very proud to work here. I was not going to stay here for a long time, but Vistaprint has been so great to me.

Pros

It's a fast growth e-commerce company that actually has a sustainable business model. That sense of security coupled with a great work-life balance attracts top talent - I'm continually amazed by some of my coworkers' abilities. It is a very globally minded company too which I've experienced a lot in Analytics.

Cons

Sometimes the pace of change is unnecessarily quick, and decisions are sometimes hasty. There's also an over-reliance at times on driving short term revenue over long term rewards, but that is moving in the right direction more recently.

Pros

In general, terrific and smart folks to work with.
Working with young talented people.
Thrill and excitement of working at a fast pace company.

Cons

Jobs in engineering are usually 24 hours 7 days a week.
Aggressive 3 week release cycles with minimum down time in between.
Don't let them fool you with comp time. You will still end up working 50+ hours no matter what happens.
I lost count of the number of appointments that I had to re-schedule my appointments due to the demands of the job when I couldn't or wasn't allowed to leave the office.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't promote from within if the individual doesn't have the soft skills to manage people. No matter how much management training you give them, some individuals should remain as individual contributors. They will never "get" it.

Pros

Smart people with a great business model and this company has really had amazing growth in the last five years

Cons

Extremely political environment and promotions are not on based on merit. Turnover is rising every quarter and the HR team has not reacted to this trend at all.

Advice to Senior Management

Get back to the basics and the focus that existed a few years ago, hire an outside firm to assess the structure of the organization and trim the fat.

Pros

Company with interesting growth, which means opportunities
If you dedicate your life to Vistaprint you may be rewarded after few years

Cons

Very poor middle management which explain a higher turnover recently.
You will be asked to work for 2-3 people so you d better negociate well your salary at the beginning.
Supposed to be a multicultural company but is in reality a very US centric company (vs global company)
A company of data, where people interaction does not really count.. they tend to fire people very quickly (no notice) without any feedbacks to prevent such situations
Perfect environment for machine type of people!

Advice to Senior Management

Choose a middle management that has real soft skills
Parity vs US