Getty Images reviews

Fixated on our one competitor instead of our fleeing customers. Getty has stayed relevant buy buying competitors, over 100 of them in the last 20 years. Now we have a competitor that we couldn't buy due to HUGE debt from going 'private' and we don't know HOW to compete. They're eating our lunch. There is an article on the cash state of the company by Bloomberg a few months ago. You should read it before considering Getty for employment. You can divide Getty into two bands of employees, those that have been at the company for 10+ years and those that have been there for less than 3. The turnover is really amazing. We hire bright people and then fire them when they try to do anything different or they leave when they realize how slow we move. We have a TON of technical debt from all of the mergers that we have patched together with duct tape and bailing wire over the years. Code base is a joke, come work as a senior developer in PHP! We are stuck in the 90's with our management style too, top down leadership all the way. Decisions are made and pushed down, you will have no input here. Extreme focus on process while calling ourselves an agile shop. Seriously, we are agile with waterfall on top!

* Extremely political workplace. Promotions are handed out according to how well you get along with management. Performance reviews lack any substance and are completely opaque. You will have no idea what to expect from one year to the next, or one manager to the next. * Dev management never looks at code and couldn't care less. It's viewed as menial labor. The more time you spend at your keyboard instead of meetings, the worse your performance review will be. Get out there and sell yourself! It's the Microsoft stack-rank system but worse - it's all done behind closed doors and seemingly on a whim. * Product management organization is so incompetent that IT has to rely on hackathons to come up with ideas to save the business. * Majority of dev work is maintaining a horribly overwrought legacy .NET code base. Anything new or anything requiring design is handled in secret meetings that you will not be allowed to attend. Open-source is viewed with disdain by principal engineers scared of losing their authority.