Vistaprint Reviews

Pros

- Startup backed by a billion dollar company - Great people - Fun atmosphere

Cons

- Limited visibility into future changes for the business - Limited growth opportunities

Pros

safe working environment agile mindset

Cons

a lot of reorganizations and destuffing budget freeze all the time

Pros

You'll get paid. You'll learn a lot of cool adoption of industry trends like CNCF. Interesting domains, you can rotate around these and learn a lot about how to solve these different problems.

Cons

__The biggest 2 issues__ 1) Lack of focus on people. At the end of the day your people is what empower your products and value streams, and there is a deficit of attention towards people. I'm not talking about shallow benefits like free cold brew coffee. I'm talking about leadership. No not bureaucrats or managers, leaders. I'm talking about people who have high emotional intelligence - the ability to build... meaningful 1 to 1 relationship with each and every employee, and understand well their expectations. I'm talking about people who can attract talent, and inspire the right kinds of people with genuine charisma and empathy. I'm talking about people who can build trust not just with their reports, but building trust among their reports. There's a lack of leaders, and this hurts the company a lot after several rounds of layoffs. Without leaders you can expect a lot of anxiety brewing among the staff and then they start leaving. 2) Vistaprint was wildly successful until the split into Cimpress occurred. Vistaprint's huge success was what enabled a lot of that transition to occur. The parent company acquires other similar businesses to enrich its portfolio as well as invests in a central mass customization platform. Despite a bunch of successful acquisitions, and a working central mass customization platform, the whole manufacturing centric / unilever concept just do not rake in huge profits, period. It often comes at the expense of the Vistaprint storefront, as over the years there weren't a lot of attention paid to that side of the organization. Well let me tell you that the whole reason Vistaprint was so successful in the first place was because of the unique interplay between manufacturing, design content, customer experience, and marketing (outbound and inbound). The compartmentalization of this whole value stream into a bureaucratic mess was unfortunate.

Advice to Management

1) Start hiring leaders or teaching your existing hierarchy how to become leaders. 2) The Vistaprint storefront is as important if not more important than the mass customization platform, and I would argue the manufacturing side of this is the most important. Figure out how to streamline this again to create an all powerful single storefront like Amazon. Abandon this whole manufacturing centric / unilever idea... with multiple storefronts, it doesn't work, your stock price dipped thanks to that. Having a single storefront has huge advantages in terms of cross-sell and consolidated marketing. Don't treat an e-commerce website like a bunch of toothpastes and soaps products... Just because the customer segments are different, doesn't necessarily mean that they have to go to different storefronts.

Pros

Ideal place to coast without needing to learn a lot of new technical skills. Will get paid the same as the other developers of the same rank without having to apply yourself. Will receive good training in following the Agile methodologies.

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.

Advice to Management

Keep pushing the same objectives. It provides an interesting study on how much a company can endure before going under.

Pros

Competitive salary, upward mobility, and new technology.

Cons

Role confusion and a lack of clear career pathways.

Advice to Management

Create better roles for the need or ask.

Pros

great people, lots of ability to move between teams, lots of autonomy

Cons

culture and changes in leadership/structure

Pros

Despite and because of recent poor performance in FY 19, Vistaprint is investing in world-class capabilities in analytically driven marketing, merchandising and pricing.

Cons

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

Pros

Great learning experience in sales

Cons

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