Beginners only - Anonymous employee Etsy Employee Review

Etsy skews very young in its demographic and it seems like this is the first job for a large proportion of the employees. This was frustrating to me as a tech veteran. If you've worked for FAANG or just have a lot of experience in general Etsy may not be the right place for you. Also, there's a lot of toxic positivity going on. Most decisions are made on slack or in person meaning if you work in another time zone or not in the office, you miss a lot, and it's more of an elevator pitch culture than a writing culture -- meaning it can be hard to find documentation or fully understand goals and plans if you're not tight with management. Ultimately it just felt like no one really knew what they were doing.