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
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 - Small technical challenges and many copy-cat tech that are outdated in other companies.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.

5.0
Aug 19, 2016

Pinterest is fun but stressful

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Start up feel, lots of responsibility. Everyone is enjoyable to work with.

Cons

Start-up feel. Lots of work, loosely defined roles

2.0
Aug 11, 2016

Bad management and culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The product, although the app doesn't allow you to zoom in on a photo or save data offline to action on later.

Cons

-Murmur results are poorer each year -Leadership focuses on managing upwards and not on developing its employees -Company's desire to stay lean has caused employees to be overworked -it's so lean, projects are always deprioritized, even the lowest hanging fruits.

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