Vistaprint Reviews

Cons

None! The company is a great place to work.

Cons

Role confusion and a lack of clear career pathways.

Cons

You won't really improve your career skills here. Also be prepared for a lot of busy-work that adds no value to the company. Most of the talent has already left to pursue other opportunities. The majority of the employees that are left are too lazy or stupid to abandon ship.

Cons

culture and changes in leadership/structure

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The company is suffering from both systemic and people problem. It will prove to be a challenging uphill battle for the CEO and CTO.
* Agile management fad - the company was too focused on progressive change management, but neglected core fundamental values. Agile adoption was used by prior leadership as means to cost reduction. The move resulted in a massive downsizing of middle to senior level management and QA. Many of those managers were actually great at their job. They were capable of nurturing an environment of trust. The transfers of responsibility and knowledge were never handled right often leaving employees very anxious and disconnected with their work environment. The managers who are left are often the ones who play their politics right, but not necessarily the right kind of managers capable of basic leadership and people skills that are desperately needed in difficult times.
* Misdirection in technical leadership - the company does not have the right technical leaders to solve a fundamental issue concerning growing business complexity and the need to stay competitive. The technical leaders are incapable of achieving organizational alignment, often leaving the software architecture in disarray costing the business a lot! There is an unhealthy us versus them sentiment among many departments.
* Hacky agile culture - again here the company tries to scale agile without changing the fundamental work practices. Many software changes as part of a push to introduce rapid product development were forced big changes or failed 3rd party software adoptions that many staff engineers complained would not work, but leadership did not have the guts to pivot essentially giving way to a hacky or pretentious agile culture. The entire ecosystem would later bear the cost of these terrible decision making with increased production incidents and degraded customer experience.
* Individual performance not graded based on impact - the people who do make a powerful impact to the business are seldom unrewarded and graded less than people who play lip service and politics. This unhealthy culture combined with incompetent managers are the biggest reasons why many talented people are leaving the company.

Cons

Continuous change, but management is not afraid to course correct when necessary.

Cons

Unorganized start-up even with the backing of a huge company such as Cimpress & lack of diversity

Cons

The biggest con was upper management. While immediate managers were great, upper management never knew what was really going on, always making decisions that hurt the business, especially the sales team.

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That focus doesn't exist anymore.

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Lots and lots of change. Some seems like it could be positive, but for the most part it doesn’t seem to help. But there are still people in management that need to go in order for the right things to happen.