Etsy reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(552 total reviews)
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Josh Silverman

63% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Etsy has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 552 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Etsy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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552 reviews
5.0
Jun 19, 2015

Engineering Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Engineering managers at Etsy are empowered to lead in the way that works best for them.

Cons

Sometimes disconnects between engineering managers and senior management make it difficult to move throughout the company.

5.0
May 27, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very friendly people, very laid back. Everyone keeps a close watch on the door and only talented, non-jerk ambitious kind people come on board. There are very few locked doors. If you have the time and ambition to make something better, you can, and you own it, and no one makes unreasonable demands of you.

Cons

The downside to having lots of opportunity and potential is that you might often feel guilty about not doing more. So if that applies to you, be wary. The product decisions are traditionally all made by committee. This often leads to underwhelming products even though everyone is talented, because this culture of being kind leads to few coherent decisions and a lot of input from a lot of people ends up washing out more pointed ideas. Also the size is ridiculous and this is due to reasons inherent to a venture capital sort of company, they just need to have a lot of employees. The more employees the stronger the company seems and the more growth they can realize. This has made the company change from a giant family to more of a "normal" segmented business where no one knows anyone else but, as we are all employed here, we are part of the "size" of the company, and it's hard to complain about.

2.0
May 20, 2015

product management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good food around the office, decent hours, fully paid health benefits.

Cons

lack of strategy from the top of the house no metrics of success very junior people put in leadership roles sharp elbows and lack of confidence / direction result in inability to partner across teams

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