"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 ;-)

rockefeller did the same, writing is on the wall

- 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???

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.

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

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!!!)

pauws, stop patronizing people on this forum,  i meant ss is more and more turning into IS

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.

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.

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.

What if he even doesn't have a family?

Perhaps he needs time to start one 

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.

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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