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TLDR - Pinterest does not treat employees well and you will have a chance to work with real stupid people in your day-to-day life. More likely your manager stabs you in the back and none of their promises will be true. People who actually do things are burning out and not rewarded. If you consider yourself a top talent, expect to be recognized or look for growth in your career - Pinterest is not the place for you. ********************** [Managers] This is the worst part. We used to have really good leaders who are widely acknowledged across the industry. We lost them to our competitors (Lyft, Airbnb, Circle to name a few) and we struggled to hire capable ones. We could be lucky to hire a small number of managers from G/F every year, but the rest are just miserable. They have poor judgements, appreciate talkers instead of doers, and stab people that they donât like in their back. Their judgment of making impact is based on superficial staff - as a result youâll see lots of L7âs talking nonsense and making useless suggestions in design meetings just to get their voice heard, or some infra engineer got promoted because they did a nice little formatting in our codebase. Thereâs a L7 manager who âcomplainedâ about too little diversity (68% of eng/company are asian) in an eng AMA event, while he is an asian himself! This attention-seeking behavior is all over the place cause that's how people are rewarded. No one wants to do the real work - cause itâs not appreciated. Real doers are burning out from putting in so much effort and getting no support from managers who only care about how they look in front of upper management. [Executives] They are full of mediocre people in the executive group, incredibly slow at making decisions, and lie blatantly to our faces in all hands meetings. They will tell you they pay by performance etc. but itâs clearly not true (and P.S donât believe in the refresher part that our recruiters told you - no way itâs guaranteed and things can get real tricky in perf reviews). Imagine someone asked a question about not seeing enough salary increase / refreshers, and our chief people officer spent 5 minutes babbling about their âphilosophyâ behind the decisions. They are not fixing the compensation due to stock depreciation as some other companies do (such as Snap and even Amazon). Lots of people are also concerned by the attrition numbers in recent months, but all of these questions are ignored. Our head of engineering has dropped our hiring bar to the ground, and turned our place into a process-driven company. He doesnât know how to recognize or hire top talent. He just pings his directs to get their inputs when he has to make any decisions (which is fine) because he really doesnât understand the main questions or key levers for moving metrics. He just doesnât have a point of view or even any original idea. Survives only based on political skill. And as a consequence, more and more terrible EMs survive, or even worse, thrive based on political skills. And by the way, we are hiring lots of contractors to âreduce costâ, but everyone knows we still pay a load to them and the time they spend in ramp-up is generally a waste of $. To make it worse, many of them are sub-par and affecting engineering quality in the long run. Itâs simply a net negative action. Perfect example of âpenny wise, pound foolishâ. [Benefits] We also removed the âpintention dayâ recently, which is like a last-minute company-wide day off. I wouldnât be surprised if they cut more benefits. References: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/indecision-at-pinterest https://www.theinformation.com/articles/pinterest-has-lost-at-least-7-senior-execs-in-recent-weeks Internal blind discussions #engineering #pinterest
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Absolutely decimated! 10/10 name and shame. Will definitely avoid
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What is Pinterest.
Who uses Pinterest? Like how tf are they making money?
I think there would be some paid feature+ads. Meanwhile I myself haven't visited the website in recent years.
Maybe try meeting a woman.
It is possible that the lack of diversity complaint from that guy seeing nearly 7/10 people being asian like him, so it's kind of like HR Emilys complaining about lack of diversity in a company in a white area when it is mostly white simply out of statistical likelihood when considering local population
Can confirm. Itâs the most political company I have ever worked for. Stay away from this garbage.
Political how. Bunch of wokesters?
Gosh...big companies are not for you.
can I get a Pinterest referral
(Iâm dead serious)
Can I quote you that I'm stupid but good at politics when I run for president?
you may confirm your stupidity as you please. elderly midwestern women are a good voting block. you'll do fine.
Ok I will!
Hilarious