Pinterest reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(992 total reviews)
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Bill Ready

49% approve of CEO

42% 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
1.0
Jan 12, 2016

Dead Product

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Not much by now given the abysmal outlook of the company growth potential. Leadership willing to spend some money to make the office look great - fake it till you make it style.

Cons

Another internal reviewer indicated rightly about stagnant growth and monetization efforts looking bleak. Current valuations may be hard for recent employees to justify the opportunity cost of working at Pinterest versus other more established public companies. Top down management where Product and Design trumps Engineering. Core product led by inexperienced PM that has no clue on how to manage life cycles, knit, or generate innovative features. Low morale across many engineering ranks. Potential downturn and talent bleed this year. Well connected personnels are allowed to fail and point fingers. Talented folks are slowly disappearing month over month.

3.0
Jan 10, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Friendly work atmosphere. * Knitcons, hack weeks and pinniversity (internal learning opportunities) are great. * Conveniently located away from market street and financial district. * Option extension program for employees who have completed 2 years.. hats off! (This doesn't matter for new employees as they get RSUs)

Cons

* User growth metrics makes me wonder if its another Twitter in the making. * No 401k match, gym membership benefits. * Org. structures in some teams doesn't make sense.. why would you have "Head of X" reporting another Head of ..? * Very painful promotion process..write packets..find peers...submit to committee etc (blindly copied from Google) makes no sense for an engineering team of 250! * Iterates slowly despite having "Go" as one of the core values. Nobody knows how many weeks it takes on an average to productize an idea. * Old timers don't seem to be motivated and they are just waiting to finish the four year mark. * Food is mostly average but once or twice a month, its really good.

2.0
Jan 1, 2016

Not recommended

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some really brilliant, humble and down to earth colleagues. Ample funding. Beautiful office spaces. Promising monetization route.

Cons

Stalled product innovations. Product hasn't change in any substantial way for the past 2 years. Career growth is limited especially around individual contributor roles. A number of low performers dwell. Many red tapes and large buffers between innovation and management, especially for a relatively small company. Big company mentality.

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Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We listen to all feedback, both positive and negative, from current and former employees and use that feedback to make Pinterest an even better and more productive place to work.
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