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

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
2.0
Mar 14, 2016

Too nice for its own good

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Pros

- Co-workers are some of the nicest people I've ever met - Very strong brand - Users are not the typical power users of tech product which is a good thing

Cons

- Nice co-workers are also the most passive aggressive people I've met which leads to A LOT of dysfunction and ironically the most backstabbing because they can't be direct with you - A good majority of the employees don't actually use the product and actually understand why Pinners use it - Very little urgency at a company that still needs to prove itself - Hasn't launched anything meaningful in the past year - Diversity is laughable and no senior leadership except one - IMO its a huge distraction for the company when its this fake and its always bad when your chief diversity hire is the only news that the company is making - first focus on making a great product and if you really care about diversity actually hire women into senior leadership - stop faking it

1.0
Mar 5, 2016

Poorly Managed

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Pros

Product still have some potential.

Cons

After a number of high profile acquisitions post January 2015, the company culture and performance has plummeted. Here's a recap on ongoing management issues that is now at least four quarters old. - Product Management does not have a clear vision on how to direct company goals resulting in never ending planning sessions with no clear execution record. - Growth Management is incompetent. No accountability after 7 months of mismanagement. - Infrastructure reorganization and disposal of long time employees that have contributed significantly. Mistrust through management favoritism. - Bogus Chief titles and Head/Director titles. Hypocritical about maintaining a flat culture. Results don't matter, special relationships with leadership matter more. - Nobody is technical at the top. Company has outgrew them long ago. Retained for unclear reasons. - CEO haven't outgrew himself. Multiple layers of Product Management leadership that are mandating product direction, it takes about 5 layers of humans before it gets to the staff that are executing. Plus a CEO still micromanaging product directions through hunches.

4.0
Mar 4, 2016

Great place to work

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Pros

Pinterest takes care of it's people. Sure, we're a startup and have troubles. Some great examples of that: - Pays well considering our stage - pre-IPO, pre-profitable - Paternity leave and maternity leave are 16 weeks - Employees are super nice (this is sometimes a con) - Senior leadership cares about the people and wants to make the place better -

Cons

- Middle management needs better leaders. They often do not take responsibility for their actions and definitely do not back up the senior leaders' decisions. We're working on this - Collaborative culture is amazing but can slow us down. We need to be better at making decisions - Decentralize decision making - individuals and middle management will pause when decisions need to be made. Not 100% sure why...

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