Etsy reviews

It feels like upper/executive management is increasingly interested in squeezing the business model to make the market happy. It's not enough to keep growth stable when the world is in turmoil, there needs to be more growth than there was before. As a result, it feels like upper management sees DEI, employee wellbeing, social causes, seller wellbeing, company reputation as expenses that they would gladly cut if they stopped penciling out in favor of keeping them around. Executive Q&As have started including "Some of our competitors don't do this at all for their employees, so you should be happy we're only reducing this" type phrasing, which is concerning. There's also pressure for teams to align their work to market fads, to show how the company is keeping up on each new tech buzzword even if it would be harmful to the company's reputation to actually carry out & interest stops as soon as the next hot thing shows up.

Etsy skews very young in its demographic and it seems like this is the first job for a large proportion of the employees. This was frustrating to me as a tech veteran. If you've worked for FAANG or just have a lot of experience in general Etsy may not be the right place for you. Also, there's a lot of toxic positivity going on. Most decisions are made on slack or in person meaning if you work in another time zone or not in the office, you miss a lot, and it's more of an elevator pitch culture than a writing culture -- meaning it can be hard to find documentation or fully understand goals and plans if you're not tight with management. Ultimately it just felt like no one really knew what they were doing.