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      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

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      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      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
      2.0
      Jul 24, 2019

      Promising company, disappointing structure

      Product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great product, fantastic teammates, engaging problem space

      Cons

      Engineering lacks strategic vision, company is disorganized, it feels like we reorg every three months. Tech debt keeps piling up and products don't ship due to lack of engineering accountability and management infighting

      5.0
      Nov 9, 2017

      I'm Lucky That I Can Say "I Love My Job"

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      As an engineer, I love Etsy's culture of curiosity. While industry standard best practices are of course important and are the standard for good reasons, it never hurts to explore and experiment with alternative approaches. Having experienced Etsy from an inside perspective for over a year now, I can definitely attest to the increased freedom, benefit and satisfaction from exercising the curiosity culture in my day-to-day work. As a human and just "I want to work so I can live my life" perspective, Etsy's benefits, culture (not necessarily just engineering culture), work-life balance and many other aspects hit the spot for me. Etsy is definitely a people-oriented company and while all the initiatives and projects ultimately reflect that people-oriented mindset, it also reflects nicely in the company culture for employees, too.

      Cons

      Purely as an engineer, there's just one relatively minor point. Having started as a small startup back in 2005, there are definitely remnants of a bygone era of "wild west coding" at Etsy. New code that gets churned out nowadays is honestly fine, but it's not entirely rare to come across a codebase that has a lot of legacy code in it still. With some of the shakeups in the past half a year (As of November '17), there've also been some re-orgs and while it was overall positive and a great change in my opinion, naturally there are still some kinks to be worked out. That said, I want to keep it clear that the above two points are actively being worked on, at least within the teams I interact with. They're just points to keep in mind given recent events.

      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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