Don't waste your time - Anonymous employee Pinterest Employee Review

2.0
21 Aug 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Beautiful cafeteria space, responsible pin patrol taking care of you crossing busy Brannan Street making sure you don't get run over by speeding cars.

Cons

- Absolutely inexperienced leadership team. Amateur hour every week. - A lot of important signals points to likely slowing growth in both engagement and $$. - Very hierarchical culture. Too many product managers, many of which fumble with very simple tasks. - Many relatively junior industry-level 4/5s in engineering management positions. - Small technical challenges and many copy-cat tech that are outdated in other companies. - Poor technical leadership. Top engineering staff (e-staff) held by very junior industry-level 6s engineers. - A lot of overlapping responsibilities and feels like a large company. - No product vision. Company desperately holding onto the past. - Product organization is shamefully mediocre, fails to acknowledge and be held responsible to many costly mistakes. - Expect head count fight for menial projects. - Diversity is lip service, smoke screen for fixing limited engineering talent funnel. - Huge exodus of engineering talent after three recent reorganizations.

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