Etsy reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(553 total reviews)
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Josh Silverman

63% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Etsy has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 553 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Etsy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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553 reviews
1.0
Jun 27, 2017

Careless company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great website for home based companies to sell hand made products.

Cons

Etsy couldn't care less about its sellers. We ran an extremely successful shop grossing over $500,000 in revenue and our shop got shut down in a matter of a month because of a few unhappy customers despite our 5 star reviews and myriads of repeat customers. Don't waste your time, they don't care about you.

2.0
Jun 21, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits, work life balance, mission, and positive impact on the world

Cons

A lot of bad managers who have no clue how to manage people. People get promoted to or hired for manager positions without regards to their people skills, leading to bad chemistry on many teams. Career progression can be very slow and coupled with below par compensation for many positions, it's hard to build a long term career here. Tooling is falling behind and internal systems are not reliable. Pervasive fear of change and boldness especially due to fear of sellers and an overbearing legal team. Management doesn't listen.

2.0
Jun 19, 2017

Great benefits...that's about it

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits and flexibility to work from home for some teams.

Cons

Very unqualified managers, high school "clicky" environment, company cares about its values more than employees, stale environment, no career progression conversations, no annual reviews...overall WORST career experience of my life. I was so miserable that I left without securing another job first. After all the recent layoffs, morale is very low and it is getting worse by the day.

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