Overall Great, needs growth work - Anonymous employee Etsy Employee Review

5.0
23 Apr 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-People Care -Great Benefits -Great employee groups like mentorship, resource groups, Dens, clubs -Flexible work modes -Focus on sustainability -Great comp package -Start up feel with big boy benefits -Your work actually matters

Cons

-Detachment between middle and upper management often leads to conflicting projects, priorities and jumbled communication down to lower level workers. -Organization/management in some areas is often misaligned with the work/workers they are managing- or lack the right skills to properly manage (from quick internal growth) -Newer workers that are SME’s in some areas are often overlooked -Etsy “nice” can seem a bit toxic and dilutes real constructive criticism or gets in the way of progress -Path for career growth unclear

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Etsy Response
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Thank you for your feedback and we’re glad that our focus on priorities like flexible work modes, best in class benefits, and ensuring a welcoming culture continue to contribute positively to your Etsy experience. We believe that our investment into Pathways Programming – helping employees to understand performance expectations, progression opportunities, and available development resources - will address your concern regarding career growth. Empowering and enabling managers continues to be a priority for the people team. However we’d appreciate more context around your comment that conflicting priorities and manager misalignment are impacting your experience. We encourage you to provide this feedback, and suggestions you may have, to your manager and/or your HR Business partner – whose information you can find on the Intraknit.

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