The Pinterest house of cards includes:
• Announcing (publicly) diversity hiring goals from the White House — by 3 white men.
• Managing out true thought leaders, disruptors, & culture carriers which include several people of color, women, and people over 40.
• Paying an ‘external diversity company’ with zero prior experience in recruiting or technology to educate company about ‘how to hire a diverse workforce’.
• Discarding innovations around how to actually push process & get things done because of leaders feeling threatened by more competent and seasoned IC employees.
• Focusing leadership energy on building up cases against those they should be guiding vs actually ‘leading’ them to evolve the product to the world [note: mostly white male managers of major teams including Eng, Design, Recruiting, HR, PM, PR]
• Festering culture of distrust, cover-ups, and dishonesty.
• Broken culture, broken product.
Asked multiple times at company Q&As, CEO says increased discomfort of current employees is a problem of the individual, takes zero responsibility for sudden attrition & morale drop.
Pinners might come first, but you’ll actually need a company of relatively satisfied people to build a product for them. Stop ignoring your people.
Spend less time posing for magazine pictures & more time building a company and product around which people will want to be a part.
