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Avantages

Amazing culture, lots of smart people to learn from

Inconvénients

Growing pains... like any other start-up

Avantages

Company culture is pretty relaxed. Work hours are very reasonable. Almost nobody has to work at night. Great benefits. Lots of fun activities outside of work.

Inconvénients

Some teams are not as mature as other teams when it comes to process and technology. Some managers do not have clear vision and strategy of where they want to take their teams.

Conseils à la direction

My management team is good but I feel some management teams need to provide clearer vision and strategy for their team and stop changing priority so frequently.

Avantages

Great work environment. Everyone at Pinterest is willing to help you solve problems, even if they aren't directly aligned with their own. True care for Pinners and providing the best experience possible.

Inconvénients

Need better promotion track and recognition.

Avantages

People are really nice, lots of great perks, love the product

Inconvénients

Not any big ones- small office so you don’t get access to some social aspects of being at a big company, and you have to find street parking- otherwise it’s great

Avantages

good vibe and company culture

Inconvénients

not great work-life balance in general

Avantages

Pinterest is one of the best jobs I've had! The company has an amazing work-life balance, and is very flexible for people with families. It's not uncommon to see people leaving at 4pm to go pick up their kids, working from home on Wednesdays, etc. For career mobility, it seems like managers are generally supportive of people exploring different paths. I've noticed that managers are much more receptive to internal... candidates than I've seen at other companies, so it's a great place to go if you want to try something new (though you still need to go through interviews and be solid performer). On culture, people joke about Pinterest being "too nice", but I find it refreshing to work with people who genuinely care about me as a person, and will go out of their way to help. I love coming to work everyday because of the people on my team! The workplace, pincuisine, and security teams are also wonderful and seem really happy, which I think speaks to how well Pinterest treats employees across the company.

Inconvénients

Some orgs are better than others in terms of management, work-life balance and career mobility, so it really depends on your manager/leader of the org (which I guess happens as we get bigger). We can also be slow to let go of underperformers. Compensation and benefits are competitive, but not astounding. However, worklife balance and not commuting to South Bay make up for that easily.

Conseils à la direction

Be quicker with taking action on poor managers, and have more meetings between HRBP's and IC's to get candid feedback that you can't get through pulse.

Avantages

Pinterest does a few things exceptionally. They develop their people incredibly well, I feel as though I've learned more in 18 months than in my entire previous career. The truly care about their employees, they emphasize work-life balance and allow for people to have lives outside work. They also truly care about their users, making a product that is focused actually improving peoples lives.

Inconvénients

There are definitely growing pains with a company that's experienced rapid growth. Sometimes feels like upper-level executives don't understand that Pinterest generates revenue by selling ads. Also noticed some people moving up in the company because of their relationships with people rather than there ability or potential to do their job well.

Conseils à la direction

Understand how the whole business operates and figure out how to balance users and advertisers to continue to grow revenue. Focus on peoples actual performance in their job to get promotions.

Avantages

- If you get stuck with a toxic team, the bright side is that a good portion of the company has really some of the kindest, smartest people I've ever encountered. - I love that the company has Knitcon, which is truly worth looking forward to every year! - Food, health benefits, etc. are pretty good! - I continue to be inspired by Ben and the company mission.

Inconvénients

- Ineffective HR department - do not overcomplicate your life by trying to resolve issues internally. If you're facing harassment, move on to another company. If you're facing discrimination, you too should move on. Retaliation? It's rampant and fairly widely accepted so again, move on. It doesn't matter if you have written proof and 23984 witnesses. It doesn't matter if the perpetrator is a bad leader and... incompetent at his/ her job. Pinterest. Doesn't. Care. - Absolutely zero transparency as to how compensation is determined at hiring & merit. The definitions & criteria seem to change based on the candidate & recruiting cycle. - So much "unconscious bias" (what Pinterest calls it) within the company that every time I hear a mid-level manager challenge a female's technical ability or say some bizarre gender-stereotyping or racial comment, I think that Pinterest as a company should really start calling it "conscious bias" because Pinterest continues to turn a blind eye despite multiple complaints. Like I said above, you're better off quitting. - Pinterest is still relatively new and so unfortunately, you might get stuck with a "manager" who essentially hit the jackpot by being an early employee at the company and rose through the (small) ranks because of that fact alone. As a result, you have a lot of leaders who are just unfortunately some of the worst managers by standard definitions and... you unfortunately can't do anything about it because no one reads quarterly surveys on managers (Pulse surveys). - Zero accountability by leaders to make sure that they're creating a culture internally that is reflective of the company mission.

Conseils à la direction

- Create an (effective) system to hold managers and leadership accountable for spreading toxic culture. Multiple time offenders? After a certain point, you should really begin to recognize who and what is the problem with each other.