Pros
One of the best reasons to work at Pinterest are the people. All of the people I work with are focused, talented, and hungry to accomplish a big goal. When you join a startup-mid-sized company, you need people on the inside who are committed to working hard to help the company succeed. Leadership makes it clear that we're all working on something that's never been done before, and we have a real opportunity to build one of the next great companies. It's an exciting time to be there. I left a big company to join Pinterest because I wanted to have a bigger impact, and I couldn't be happier here. I'm so proud to work at Pinterest, which isn't something you can always say about your employer.
Cons
- Free breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks (as is standard for most tech companies at this point), but the food could be better... - Friday Q&A with the CEO and other leaders has also become a standard, and is a great way to hear from management, however I wish it wasn't at 4PM on Fridays, which makes it hard to ever potentially leave early for the weekend, and making it more difficult for international and east coast offices to participate. That being said, most managers are flexible, there's unlimited PTO, and I typically don't work on the weekends/late nights unless there's a big project/deadline.