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      Pinterest reviews

      3.6

      61% would recommend to a friend

      (992 total reviews)
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      Bill Ready

      49% approve of CEO

      43% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      2.7

      Senior management

      Pinterest has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 992 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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      992 reviews
      5.0
      Aug 5, 2016

      One of the better companies out there

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      on the vanguard of computer vision. search, and machine learning flexible vacation policies. take as much time as you need when you need it. free breakfast, lunch, and dinner saves money ability to move around company and work in different areas allow engineers to grow their skill set. fair compensation , generous equity

      Cons

      a few bad apples here and there and low performers aren't deal with quickly enough slow in making decisions but that is changing dysfunctional promotion process

      5.0
      Aug 4, 2016

      Great place to work for user-facing product engineers

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Great work environment, perks, free food etc. * Product engineers work directly with world-class designers * A/B experimentation and data analysis tools make feature development fun and addicting * Middle management is held accountable by their reports * ICs can still have a large impact on product * Company makes an effort to take care of its employees

      Cons

      * Company is growing fast so expect frequent org changes and restructuring * No 401k match * Campus is spread between multiple buildings across blocks

      2.0
      Aug 2, 2016

      Struggling Company

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Attracts a lot of average product managers and strong designers applying for product-design centric company. However, we have a lot of trouble attracting and keeping seasoned engineers. We also tend to attract micro-managing engineering managers who like to run teams like sweat shops focusing on tactics rather than strategy.

      Cons

      I have been in this company for a little over two years. I have never witnessed so much office politics and power struggle as I have seen at Pinterest. There are plenty of smaller and larger places that are operated a lot more professionally than Pinterest. Trust is completely eroded throughout the chain of command. We have rotated through three different Heads of Engineering: one from Amazon, another from Shopkick, and another from Palantir. This seat is vacant again, held temporarily by our previous Head of Product/President. We are in the midst of another round of personnel shuffling. Many of our most experienced and earliest engineers have left the company. We have lost the war with Instagram or Snapchat, and Leadership is still busy figuring out what our product is really about and how to structure marketing, sales, engineering, product management, partner management.

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