Ups and downs, with more downs in the last couple of years - Senior Director Engineering Etsy Employee Review

3.0
Jan 1, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good people to work with, interesting problems to solve, delivering a meaningful product to a select group of star sellers as well as many buyers around the world

Cons

A dwindling tolerance at the senior leadership level for challenging authority and an increasing appetite for top down decision making, tons of fraud and trust/safety concerns due to all of the scammer sellers, dissonance between values and actions from leadership, years of poor business decisions by the executive team resulting in a lack of core growth and layoffs (both hidden and public)

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Empathetic, smart people in a lot places.

Cons

Senior leadership has changed alot in the years since the pandemic highs and it's not quite stabilized. Overvalued executors and undervalued those with high EQ and people leadership. Promoted executors into senior roles and then they floundered and exited, or worse they chased away better potential fits for those roles who were overlooked.

3.0
May 28, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

cool culture flexible work arrangements, decent pay, cool work.

Cons

outsourcing everything they can, selling all they can for parts, its a sinking ship of a company. keep in mind that they spend more on labor in Mexico city than in USA! What a sham! should be taken off US Stock exchange for that! Loosing users at a steady rate year of year. I'd avoid. no growth opportunity. Not brand vision.

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