Pinterest Reviews

Pros

In my time at Pinterest, I've grown tremendously through the support of my team. I've been given the chance to work on high impact, challenging problems, and can see the direct throughline of my output to the company's mission. My time at Pinterest has flown by, mainly because of the great and challenging work, the great coworkers, and a product I personally use and can stand behind.

Cons

Decisions are sometimes made without transparency, or take a long time, which sometimes means IC's have to scramble to hit goals. But we're focusing on making decisions quicker and I think we're on the right track.

Pros

Compelling culture and product. Great colleagues made it worth coming to work.

Cons

Hyper-growth creates the problems hyper-growth creates.

Pros

I truly enjoy coming into work every day. Everyone makes me feel loved. I love how I can see clear career paths, and I can contribute my gifts/talents and they are appreciated.

Cons

Can be stressful at times

Pros

Wonderful company to work for and seriously I get to work with the best people from the top down

Cons

I don’t have any cons

Advice to Management

Keep up the great work. You’re amazing!

Pros

Mission driven culture and desire to differentiate from other platforms.

Cons

No product vision. No innovation engine. CEO does not understand the revenue products

Pros

Some very pleasant and earnest colleagues

Cons

Political and clique-y. Managers who fell up. Product gets worse.

Advice to Management

Cast a wider hiring net.

Pros

In theory a very sellable product. Actually really compelling insights about what people are into personally vs the face they put out into the world. Strong hire with Andrea Mallard at CMO.

Cons

1. Compelling narrative but does not play out in reality for most advertisers, making it actually a hard product to sell. 2. Stagnating growth in US and lack of male audience requires a decent amount of spinning 3. Sales leadership is all over the place, they solve missing revenue goals by endless reorgs, which is leading to mass attrition of sales people. They are highly distractable by the latest big “deal” and... fail do not have a solid plan in place to diversify revenue or focus on the big picture. 4. As a seller, it’s feast or famine. Revenue targets are often irrational leading often based on ambition rather than reality to a demotivated sales force. Compared to competitors, I would say this is one of the worst companies to work for if you like compensation stability. Pinterest is young, but not so young that they should have this much trouble setting realistic goals.

Advice to Management

Clean house on sales leadership. With a majority female sales force, it’s a shame that much of the senior sales team is male, the imbalance leads to poor optics and awkward conversations. Consider hiring people from companies other than Google. Hire some actual people managers for a change and not just people who like to hear themselves talk. Francoise needs to spend more time with sellers and customers to see the... disconnect between our product and the market needs.

Pros

- 3 meals a day - nice people - very good work life balance - decent perks - good exposure to a variety of projects - safe comfortable work projects because we are playing catch up

Cons

- nobody takes up ownership outside of their OKRs - everybody plays it safe, no risk-taking - everything moves super slow - not my responsibility so i don't care attitude - too many people taking PTO, 3/10 OOO email responses - no mobility, too many external hires for middle management who don't really serve any purpose - pay is suppressed

Advice to Management

- seriously consider setting more accountability for people - remove underperforming folks - be more aggressive and act like a true under dog, culture is way too beta and nice