A rewarding, healthy place to work that will keep you too busy. - Senior Operations Engineer Etsy Employee Review

3.0
Nov 6, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay, stock grants, remote benefits, wonderful diverse people

Cons

Management was a bit of a revolving door, HR practices and top management are a bit questionable.

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Etsy Response
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Thank you for sharing this feedback. It’s encouraging to hear that the efforts we’ve put toward competitive pay, financial benefits, and creating a diverse and inclusive environment contributed positively to your time with us. Your feedback around work/life balance and management effectiveness is also important to us. We’ve found that with our recent rapid growth, we needed to scale our employee base to maintain momentum. We’re focused on creating more balance and better access to resources to help set our teams up for long-term success. In that vein, we’ve enhanced our hiring and recruiting efforts to deepen our impact effectively. We are optimistic that these steps will address the concerns you’ve raised here, and we have already seen progress in this regard.

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Cons

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Cons

Nothing I can think of really.

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