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      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

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      4.4

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      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
      3.0
      Apr 10, 2017

      Admin

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Free food and snacks, late AM starting hours, great perks.

      Cons

      A lot of lip service is paid to the motto "strong backs and open hearts". Yet a number of the managers are bullies and are quick to throw their people under the bus. A general lack of skilled managers leading departments, who do not understand how to do the tasks their subordinates are working on & therefore can't judge performance accurately. Department direction is kept a secret or not even thought out and constantly changes. Little to no room for career advancement and/or growth. Reviews and promotions are based completely on feelings, and not about productivity and professional contribution. Little to no room for upward mobility.

      3.0
      Mar 26, 2017

      Nice people, great perks, surprisingly frustrating engineering organization

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The mission of the company/product is great, and it's delightful to see how being a values-driven business does permeate all levels of Etsy culture. From the local snacks in the kitchenettes to the way meetings are carried, Etsy is a company that walks the walk when they talk about being driven by a mission of empowering small local creators. Related to this is a great work/life balance. Etsy's a pretty cushy job.

      Cons

      On the engineering/product side of things, there's a pervasive fear of change at an institutional level means that anything that would improve the codebase or engineering process is a hard to impossible sell. Major "not invented here" syndrome means that engineers spend a lot of their time dealing with problems that are completely abstracted away in other similar engineering organizations because everyone's building on top of overengineered in-house tooling.

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