Pinterest reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(992 total reviews)
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Bill Ready

49% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Pinterest has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 992 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pinterest employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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992 reviews
3.0
Jun 14, 2023
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Pros

- Most people are very respectful and helpful - WLB - Somewhat competitive comp

Cons

- Tech debt, and a lot of them. Engineers are not incentivized to clean up tech debt. Blame the top eng leaders. - Not strong enough engineering culture compared to top tech companies - Unclear product directions and strategies - Incompetent leadership all over the company - New HR leadership is terrible

2.0
May 6, 2017

Disappointing for senior women

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- breakfast, lunch, dinner - close to public transit - good maintenance group + interesting buildings - Pinterest is a great place for early-career women 0-3yrs.

Cons

One reason I chose Pinterest was the hope of working in a community with experienced women. Fewer than 20 women had 5+ years of industry experience in a company of 500 - 1000. But more than 180 men. - The men at Pinterest are the same men you worked with at FB/Apple/Yahoo/Twitter, now trying to advance careers by paying lip service to D&I. Their behavior hasn’t changed, And, they act with impunity at Pinterest as they do at FB/Apple/Yahoo/Twitter. You’ve experienced this before, at Pinterest self-interest is prioritized over ethics. - Pinterest is looking for early career women 0-3yrs.

2.0
Aug 21, 2016

Don't waste your time

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Beautiful cafeteria space, responsible pin patrol taking care of you crossing busy Brannan Street making sure you don't get run over by speeding cars.

Cons

- Absolutely inexperienced leadership team. Amateur hour every week. - A lot of important signals points to likely slowing growth in both engagement and $$. - Very hierarchical culture. Too many product managers, many of which fumble with very simple tasks. - Many relatively junior industry-level 4/5s in engineering management positions. - Small technical challenges and many copy-cat tech that are outdated in other companies. - Poor technical leadership. Top engineering staff (e-staff) held by very junior industry-level 6s engineers. - A lot of overlapping responsibilities and feels like a large company. - No product vision. Company desperately holding onto the past. - Product organization is shamefully mediocre, fails to acknowledge and be held responsible to many costly mistakes. - Expect head count fight for menial projects. - Diversity is lip service, smoke screen for fixing limited engineering talent funnel. - Huge exodus of engineering talent after three recent reorganizations.

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