Pinterest reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(993 total reviews)
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Bill Ready

48% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Pinterest has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 993 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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993 reviews
2.0
Dec 4, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Very little pros. Cute office space. Free breakfast, lunch and dinner. Flexible PTOs. Good family benefits. Not sure what's with all the recent fake reviews from HR.

Cons

This year has been a nightmare for many old and new employees. Management shuffle every few weeks, reorganization of Engineering, Design and Product. Huge employee churn with many highly technical individual contributors leaving the company for better places like Facebook and Google. Fact is even though international growth looks pretty okay, the revenue is lagging behind very badly and it is very hard for employees to justify the lofty valuations. Management seems to think that all problems can be solved by management change / reorganization, and they have mistreated many valuable individual contributors that have left the company. The commerce initiative has also failed and the fallout is spectacular. This company is great for early employees that became middle managers. Most of them are clawing their way to stick around, stepping on others, because it is very hard for them to find similar positions at other more respected companies. Our engineering leadership is now led by either professional managers from second tier companies that lack technical depth, old employees that are just clocking in and out daily to keep their positions, or medaled professors that have very little practical know-how. ICs have very little opportunities to shine and many are already disillusioned by the constant organizational missteps. A few of us have very little faith in this company and are looking outwards for better opportunities.

4.0
Oct 30, 2016

Great company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

exciting technologies and vibrant culture. very dedicated to keeping employees happy and inspired. interns were treated really well. great efforts in increasing diversity

Cons

as the company grows, it is not uncommon to run into employees who are not very passionate about the product or on board with the company's mission.

5.0
Oct 10, 2016

Amazing place to work!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Extremely smart and motivated teammates - Great culture. People are friendly, respectful, ambitious and hard-working - Users and revenue are growing very fast, and accelerating - Lots of big opportunities to contribute and help grow the org; feels like company still has the potential to 10-50x - Great mission, with a product that makes people's lives happier and more fulfilling - In San Francisco - Really good food and benefits

Cons

- I love the company stage (post-product/market fit, pre-IPO), but this is very subjective; some people might enjoy something earlier or later stage - Lots of change as the company is growing; again, I like this, but others might now

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