Poor leadership - Anonymous employee Etsy Employee Review

2.0
24 Sept 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Etsy offers a great work-life balance, which makes it easy to manage both personal and professional responsibilities.

Cons

Frequent reorganizations and yearly shifts in strategy make it hard to see projects through. Leadership often lacks experience, prioritizing speed over thoughtful decision-making. Communication is indirect, which can stall progress and limit opportunities for upward movement.

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5.0
25 Jun 2026
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Pros

Empathetic, smart people in a lot places.

Cons

Senior leadership has changed alot in the years since the pandemic highs and it's not quite stabilized. Overvalued executors and undervalued those with high EQ and people leadership. Promoted executors into senior roles and then they floundered and exited, or worse they chased away better potential fits for those roles who were overlooked.

3.0
28 May 2026
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Pros

cool culture flexible work arrangements, decent pay, cool work.

Cons

outsourcing everything they can, selling all they can for parts, its a sinking ship of a company. keep in mind that they spend more on labor in Mexico city than in USA! What a sham! should be taken off US Stock exchange for that! Loosing users at a steady rate year of year. I'd avoid. no growth opportunity. Not brand vision.

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