Pinterest reviews

Even during the salary negotiating, post-interview period, one could already tell that this is a company run by disingenuous, superficial people. During my time here, I dealt with inept middle management typical of traditional tech startups where "openness" is merely paid lip service. Everyone was obsessed with what they did prior to joining this company, at Facebook, Google, etc., instead of looking forward or using the actual creativity they purport to espouse. As well, one has to suffer through the usual self-congratulatory attitude, a profound lack of self-awareness, and shallowness of these so-called liberal, progressive types in tech who are never challenged on their actual beliefs. I had three different managers during my time here and each one was as tone-deaf and ineffectual as the last. The most disgusting part was maybe the casual racism. It's not an issue particular to Pinterest, but perhaps society as a whole, but when the entire company is majority cis-gendered, straight, White men, then you can guess the ingrained ignorance involved. These people are very calculated; just be aware of that. No one stays long. You can do better than working for a company whose main product is a repackaged Google image search. The real genius is how they sell people "creativity" through IP infringement. Nothing better exemplifies the surface level, vapid nature of these people.

- NOT SAFE FOR LGBT, especially T - a lot of virtue signaling but very little actual policies or management truly willing to protect LGBT and BIPOC workers - Middle management will absolutely burn you into the ground, they DO NOT care about you at all - Very fake people/company, a lot of performative allyship, a lot of toxic masculinity - Being thrown around to a new team/manager every 6 months (get you in with a good one, transfer you to one that burns you out) - Features you work on can be completely trashed (so much for all that work) - Management goes out of their way to find every little thing you did wrong and mischaracterize situations to their fullest - Dirty liberal centrists that have no real spine or backbone on anything