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      Pinterest reviews

      3.6

      61% would recommend to a friend

      (993 total reviews)
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      Bill Ready

      49% approve of CEO

      43% positive business outlook

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      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      2.7

      Senior management

      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
      5.0
      Jan 13, 2016

      Great place to work

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Super smart people working on unique problems. Cooperative culture with humble people results in a bare minimum of politics. Lots of opportunities for growth within teams, but also lots of examples of cross-functional moves. It's a values-driven company that focuses on impact AND how they achieve it. Best place I've worked.

      Cons

      Things can change quickly as we grow and that can be disconcerting to some people. There are a lot of kind people (that's the culture), but it can be hard to get people to give difficult feedback.

      1.0
      Jan 12, 2016

      Dead Product

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Not much by now given the abysmal outlook of the company growth potential. Leadership willing to spend some money to make the office look great - fake it till you make it style.

      Cons

      Another internal reviewer indicated rightly about stagnant growth and monetization efforts looking bleak. Current valuations may be hard for recent employees to justify the opportunity cost of working at Pinterest versus other more established public companies. Top down management where Product and Design trumps Engineering. Core product led by inexperienced PM that has no clue on how to manage life cycles, knit, or generate innovative features. Low morale across many engineering ranks. Potential downturn and talent bleed this year. Well connected personnels are allowed to fail and point fingers. Talented folks are slowly disappearing month over month.

      3.0
      Jan 10, 2016

      Another Twitter in the making?

      Senior software engineer
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      Pros

      * Friendly work atmosphere. * Knitcons, hack weeks and pinniversity (internal learning opportunities) are great. * Conveniently located away from market street and financial district. * Option extension program for employees who have completed 2 years.. hats off! (This doesn't matter for new employees as they get RSUs)

      Cons

      * User growth metrics makes me wonder if its another Twitter in the making. * No 401k match, gym membership benefits. * Org. structures in some teams doesn't make sense.. why would you have "Head of X" reporting another Head of ..? * Very painful promotion process..write packets..find peers...submit to committee etc (blindly copied from Google) makes no sense for an engineering team of 250! * Iterates slowly despite having "Go" as one of the core values. Nobody knows how many weeks it takes on an average to productize an idea. * Old timers don't seem to be motivated and they are just waiting to finish the four year mark. * Food is mostly average but once or twice a month, its really good.

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