Is Pinterest a good company to work for?

Pinterest has an overall rating of 3.6 out of 5, based on over 1,277 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 6% over the last 12 months. 61% of employees would recommend working at Pinterest to a friend and 43% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Pinterest have been left by employees working as Software Engineer(Internship) , Software Engineer Intern and Software Engineer .

Does Pinterest pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Pinterest employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Pinterest. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Pinterest?

61% of Pinterest employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Pinterest 3.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.4 for culture and values and 3.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Pinterest?

Software Engineer (151) , Account Manager (57) , Senior Software Engineer (31) , Partner Manager (28) , Machine Learning Engineer (20) , Data Scientist (17) , Software Engineer(Internship) (17) , Software Engineer Intern (16) , Product Designer (13) , Program Manager (12) , Product Manager (11) , Sales Manager (11) , Account Coordinator (9) , Senior Account Manager (9) , Software Engineer II (9)

What are the pros of working at Pinterest according to real employee reviews?

"People I worked with were great" ((in 155 reviews)); "Targets are achievable and the benefits are great." ((in 96 reviews)); "Good work life balance and generally interesting projects" ((in 79 reviews)); "Great people and teams" ((in 41 reviews)); "Office colleagues are great 👍🏾" ((in 28 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Pinterest according to real employee reviews?

"Senior leadership spends more time managing optics and public image than focusing on meaningful change or actual company performance." ((in 46 reviews)); "Not exempt from layoffs and resource shorages" ((in 11 reviews)); "Inexperienced and insensitive middle management." ((in 10 reviews)); "Diversity is a huge problem, especially for women." ((in 9 reviews)); "Bullying by superiors is not only common but is basically expected as a norm." ((in 6 reviews))

What are employees saying about Pinterest layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Pinterest layoffs and their outlook for job security at Pinterest in 2026.

What Pinterest locations have received the highest employee ratings?

Los Angeles , New York , San Francisco , Chicago , Seattle

Pinterest reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(992 total reviews)

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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Reviews by job title

992 reviews

2.0

Apr 23, 2016

Gloomy

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Relatively moderate growth for a company with promising product.

Cons

Many B/C-players at the leadership level. Mass departures and instability recently.

1.0

Apr 18, 2016

Incompetent Leadership

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

It's a job that has all the bells and whistles.

Cons

Leadership does not know how to address negative feedback. They sweep problems under the rug. Diversity is a huge problem, especially for women. The reason why there are so many great reviews on here is because HR makes sure to bribe people to write only positive reviews.

5.0

Mar 31, 2016

Growth is hard but still best company I've worked for

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Big engineering challenges but still small enough that individuals can make a real difference. - Surrounded by very talented engineers, designers and data analysts that will take the time to answer your questions and can learn from. - Management is incredibly transparent and open. Every Friday there is public Q&A with CEO and senior management answering your favorite anonymous questions. Every meeting with more than three people sends out notes so you can see what's going on with rest of the company. - Clear at every step that Ben (CEO) really cares about employees and wants them to share in success longer term and enjoy their day at work. - Like any company going to be non-optimal groups or projects but seems pretty easy to switch groups if there is something else you want to do I've worked at 4 different startups/tech companies now and this is by far the best company to work for out of all of them. The perks, culture and engineering are great but the opportunities and care for employees are even better.

Cons

- They are growing very quickly and you have to be ready to grow yourself as well as upgrade existing solutions that aren't scaling. - The foundational changes to scale in raw number of users and internationalize product aren't necessarily appreciated by everyone I've read a number of reviews complaining about lack of engineering rigor and in my experience most of the problems they are describing are problems of growth where the solutions that worked last year don't scale to this year's traffic. This growth leads to legitimate problems and challenges but they are the kind of problems that you want, much better than the problem not having any growth in users.

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