Pinterest Software Developer reviews

"Is there an engineer in the room?" Key observation: asking the question doesn't mean enforcing the behavior. "No" is perfectly a great answer! This is recently proven by our President's action to making sweeping changes to the entire engineering organization and admitting no technical folks were consulted in the decision. This reminds us of the dramatic downfall of our previous sales organization also orchestrated by the same person. Was he supposed to earn our trust after that last debacle? Also what about the mistakes by our chief product guy? He seems to be another company insider with no product vision. Is our president distracting attention away from the main culprit by removing others under him?

- 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.