Pinterest reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(995 total reviews)
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Bill Ready

48% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Pinterest has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 995 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pinterest employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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995 reviews
3.0
Jun 30, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

collaboration is good, people are nice

Cons

product team is a mess, very top-down decision. making. Feels like promotion decisions are made arbitrarily based on politics and relationships

1.0
Jun 18, 2021

Lying Capitalists

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good values - Good pay - A few genuine people here and there - Some unique systems that help drive data driven decision making

Cons

- 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

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Pinterest Response
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Thank you for sharing this review. While we’re glad you enjoyed some aspects of Pinterest, we’re so sorry that you had a negative experience and appreciate you sharing these details so we can use them to affect change. We are deeply committed to improving our culture and are investing time and resources in making Pinterest a better workplace for all Pinployees. If you’d like to share any additional feedback, please reach out to our anonymous hotline at (844) 704-6249. Pinterest People Team
3.0
Jun 18, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free food and great resume builder

Cons

Toxic dog eat dog culture, classic Silicon Valley passive aggressive behavior, seems like they make decisions behind closed doors and only tell the select few about it. Everyone else needs to figure out as they go and hard to know where you stand. Perfs are structured so that they can be arbitrary. Everyone is scared, watching their back and looking out for #1. Saw multiple employees leave due to burnouts, breakdowns, and mental health issues. It's all smoke and mirrors. Work their people like dogs as well. Seems like they just keeping hiring from Google and expecting that anyone not from Google will just figure the systems out with no training. Total PIP culture and lets dead weight just coast as long as they are comfortable with feeling terrible day in day out.

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Pinterest Response
5y
Thank you for sharing this review. We’re so sorry that you had a negative experience at Pinterest and appreciate you sharing these details so we can use them to affect change. We are deeply committed to improving our culture and are investing time and resources in making Pinterest a better workplace for all Pinployees. If you’d like to share any additional feedback, please reach out to our anonymous hotline at (844) 704-6249. Pinterest People Team
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