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« on: July 14, 2016, 15:37 »
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"On July 11, 2016, Anshu Aggarwal, Chief Technology Officer of Shutterstock, Inc. (the Company), notified the Company of his decision to resign from his position, effective July 29, 2016, to spend more time with his family."

Draw your own conclusions ;-)


« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2016, 16:19 »
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"On July 11, 2016, Anshu Aggarwal, Chief Technology Officer of Shutterstock, Inc. (the Company), notified the Company of his decision to resign from his position, effective July 29, 2016, to spend more time with his family."


deja vu... in 1998, my firm eradicated the full work-force of middle - managers
and we were told to say, we had all suddenly decided
to spend more time with his family."

« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2016, 19:17 »
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rockefeller did the same, writing is on the wall

« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2016, 19:39 »
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshuaggarwal

The guy's only been there 10 months! So was he not working out?

He managed 2 years at Tumblr but only 11 months at the job before that.

On glassdoor, someone who left Tumblr in March 2015 (6 months prior to this guy) said:

"Pros
- Lots of free food, parties and alcohol. If you're a "bro" then you'll have a great time.
Cons
- Tumblr is run on a tangled mess of homegrown tools, horrendously fragile code and the worst engineering practices I've ever seen from any company. There is no QA, code reviews aren't taken seriously, anyone can commit to master and push their code to production at any time. The entire development process can best be described as institutionalized cowboy coding.

- Brogramming is real and Tumblr exemplifies it "

So possibly it's a good thing that this person is leaving SS? I guess it depends on who comes onboard next...

« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2016, 21:00 »
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- Tumblr is run on a tangled mess of homegrown tools, horrendously fragile code and the worst engineering practices I've ever seen from any company. There is no QA, code reviews aren't taken seriously, anyone can commit to master and push their code to production at any time. The entire development process can best be described as institutionalized cowboy coding.

- Brogramming is real and Tumblr exemplifies it "


so what is it>?  is he the cause of problem with IT at ss that we've been seeing lately ?
or is he just the scapegoat while the rest of the floor continues with brogramming
to curate our commercial uploads, while the humans indulge on
 free food parties alcohol, ping pong and free dope at ss???

Shelma1

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« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2016, 21:28 »
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Well, the site has been rife with technical problems during his short tenure, so I'm not sure that speaks well of his leadership abilities.

Shutterstock also gets pretty low ratings for employee satisfaction. Doesn't really sounds like a fun place to work, despite the free pizza and whatever else.

« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2016, 00:43 »
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rockefeller did the same, writing is on the wall
What writing he is being replaced seems to me like decisive management in the face of obvious growing issues with their IT. This appointment was senior enough to require public reporting so no mere junior singled out as scapegoat.

« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2016, 14:02 »
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rockefeller did the same, writing is on the wall
What writing he is being replaced seems to me like decisive management in the face of obvious growing issues with their IT. This appointment was senior enough to require public reporting so no mere junior singled out as scapegoat.

i would say it works either way.
during the 80s when re-structuring swooped the globe, esp USA and Cda,
many middle managers and some seniors were given the pink slip
so as to give the shareholders the impression that they were the problem.
a general white-wash, if you like,
the problem was in fact, the CEOs themselves letting in their good for nothing kids to run the business
. someone had to be blamed,
and it wasn't going to be the major shareholders.

furthermore, eliminating the whole middle management
and replacing them with junior staff at minimum wage
gave the firms a big rise in profit that year.
so the shareholders thought it was due to the hardwork of the culprit CEOs who protected
their own behinds. only an Accountant would tell you
elimination of the mid-mgt alone would have save a bundle and thus , the sudden amazing profit
that following year.
« Last Edit: July 15, 2016, 14:05 by etudiante_rapide »

« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2016, 14:06 »
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Well, the site has been rife with technical problems during his short tenure, so I'm not sure that speaks well of his leadership abilities.

Shutterstock also gets pretty low ratings for employee satisfaction. Doesn't really sounds like a fun place to work, despite the free pizza and whatever else.

employees who are spending a lot of time eating pizza and playing pingpong while their robots do the work, can eventually feel dissatisfied when an inch became a foot and a foot became a yard..
and they feel they still needed an entitlement of a miles

« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2016, 17:11 »
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When an exec gets the boot, what is it that compels the PR people to use that tired, and gag-inducing cliche about "spending more time with his family"?  I guess it's a stock business, so stock language is required.  Hey how about a stock photo of a smiling good-looking young guy in a suit, with a fake family, grilling hamburgers on a patio?

« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2016, 17:21 »
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When an exec gets the boot, what is it that compels the PR people to use that tired, and gag-inducing cliche about "spending more time with his family"?  I guess it's a stock business, so stock language is required.  Hey how about a stock photo of a smiling good-looking young guy in a suit, with a fake family, grilling hamburgers on a patio?

it isn't a stock business cliche, stockastic...
it's a corporate cliche, even politics cliche.

it just sounds "humane"... "noble"... but the real meaning is
..
(CEO) ... "um, um, we really f***ed-up big time!
and either we all quit , or we pick some poor s*cker to make us look good!"

it's like John sang, "how well do you sleep?"

oh well, only the wives of the CEOs know the true meaning of "spending more time with family".
(here's have a drag of my stick of grAss!!!)

« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2016, 21:19 »
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I've been involved in this kind of thing. There's essentially a menu of ways to spin a termination (we call it a separation.  Family is one, "pursue other opportunities" is another.  I know specific reasons why people were fired or pushed out and the company spins it by touting the "many great things they did" in their x years with us, etc. It's usually baloney. The SS site has wreaked with technical issues for a year or more and the hypothesized lack of accountability at HQ is another hint.

The whole SS thing, the feeling, the mojo, the persona is starting to feel like IS.

« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2016, 00:46 »
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pauws, stop patronizing people on this forum,  i meant ss is more and more turning into IS

« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2016, 01:04 »
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pauws, stop patronizing people on this forum,  i meant ss is more and more turning into IS
  I thought you meant sacking middle management you may be right or the move might mean that they've realised that the have been heading that way and trying to stop the trend.

« Reply #14 on: July 16, 2016, 01:22 »
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When an exec gets the boot, what is it that compels the PR people to use that tired, and gag-inducing cliche about "spending more time with his family"?  I guess it's a stock business, so stock language is required.  Hey how about a stock photo of a smiling good-looking young guy in a suit, with a fake family, grilling hamburgers on a patio?
Yes everyone knows what it means specially when you up and leave within three weeks.

« Reply #15 on: July 16, 2016, 08:54 »
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I see a pattern in Anshu's career. Bad luck and bad timings mixed. Longest tenure he had was 5 years some months in one company and that was acquired by Yahoo. after that company it is make-shift arrangement everywhere. I wish him luck and stable career.

« Reply #16 on: July 16, 2016, 09:47 »
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I've been involved in this kind of thing. There's essentially a menu of ways to spin a termination (we call it a separation.  Family is one, "pursue other opportunities" is another. I know specific reasons why people were fired or pushed out and the company spins it by touting the "many great things they did" in their x years with us, etc. It's usually baloney. The SS site has wreaked with technical issues for a year or more and the hypothesized lack of accountability at HQ is another hint.

The whole SS thing, the feeling, the mojo, the persona is starting to feel like IS.


my thoughts exactly. for those of us who were in corporate world before, we 'd seen and in fact
got that sort of termination.
it is all about who the CEOs and cousins of the nepotism brigade can fire with the least
evidence pointing to themselves and their total f**kup.
to put it in a more objective way,
Art of War used to say, "if the soldiers f***up, blame the commander, not the soldiers"
or like the Brazilians football mentality, if the team loses, hang the coach.

unfortunately, the corporate world does not have this sort of respectability.
it is more dog eat dog, and like politics ,etc... there is more honor amongs crooks and criminals.

back to ss, the paper trail of what has been happening ...
from mass rejection, to hacking, to slowdown or non-existent of images available for the client...
resulting in downloads falling off a cliff overnight...
to disappearance of the big single earnings of 28 to 102 dollars,etc..

the list is endless.  if this was a house, the only best solution would be to burn it down.

once again, i echo you, ... smells like Istock all over again.


« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2016, 10:06 »
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Well if he's really leaving to "spend more time with his family" then that means we won't see him pop up in another corner office at some other big company a month from now.  Right?  When he does, everyone should send him email saying "hey you said you were going to spend more time with your family. What happened?"  And another to SS :  "Do you realize he isn't really spending more time with his family? "

« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2016, 11:12 »
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Well if he's really leaving to "spend more time with his family" then that means we won't see him pop up in another corner office at some other big company a month from now.  Right?  When he does, everyone should send him email saying "hey you said you were going to spend more time with your family. What happened?"  And another to SS :  "Do you realize he isn't really spending more time with his family? "

LOL that was good.

« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2016, 12:08 »
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What if he even doesn't have a family?

« Reply #20 on: July 16, 2016, 12:42 »
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What if he even doesn't have a family?
Perhaps he needs time to start one  :o

« Reply #21 on: July 16, 2016, 18:29 »
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Well if he's really leaving to "spend more time with his family" then that means we won't see him pop up in another corner office at some other big company a month from now.  Right?  When he does, everyone should send him email saying "hey you said you were going to spend more time with your family. What happened?"  And another to SS :  "Do you realize he isn't really spending more time with his family? "

or worst case scenario (given that it is in fact a smoke-screen and he being the most expendable to save the @$$e$ of those above and below him)
he is out there on the street (with his family) squeegeeing windshields
with a note hanging on his neck, "i used to be a big guy with the #1 microstock agency in the world but they hung me out to dry!"
and in fact spending alot of time with family..
on the street corner
while the real culprits are still eating pizza, playing ping pong and have their robots do their work.
« Last Edit: July 16, 2016, 18:32 by etudiante_rapide »

marthamarks

« Reply #22 on: July 16, 2016, 19:19 »
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Based on the lousy tech cr*p we've seen at SS over the last 1-2 years, this could turn out to be a major plus for us. Assuming, of course, upper management actually makes an effort to find somebody who knows and cares enough to fix it.

Otherwise, we're likely to see SS continue its slow, relentless swirl around the toilet bowl.

« Reply #23 on: July 16, 2016, 19:29 »
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Well if he's really leaving to "spend more time with his family" then that means we won't see him pop up in another corner office at some other big company a month from now.  Right?  When he does, everyone should send him email saying "hey you said you were going to spend more time with your family. What happened?"  And another to SS :  "Do you realize he isn't really spending more time with his family? "

or worst case scenario (given that it is in fact a smoke-screen and he being the most expendable to save the @$$e$ of those above and below him)
he is out there on the street (with his family) squeegeeing windshields
with a note hanging on his neck, "i used to be a big guy with the #1 microstock agency in the world but they hung me out to dry!"
and in fact spending alot of time with family..
on the street corner
while the real culprits are still eating pizza, playing ping pong and have their robots do their work.

"Spending more time with his family" could even mean "moving back in with his parents".

ngaga35

« Reply #24 on: July 16, 2016, 19:45 »
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Based on the lousy tech cr*p we've seen at SS over the last 1-2 years, this could turn out to be a major plus for us. Assuming, of course, upper management actually makes an effort to find somebody who knows and cares enough to fix it.

Otherwise, we're likely to see SS continue its slow, relentless swirl around the toilet bowl.
I hope you're right. Not that he knew it was time to desert a sinking ship!!!


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