Pinterest discrimination: is the company this bad?

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Aug 11, 2020 137 Comments

The woman COO of Pinterest who was fired shared some pretty heavy stuff:
- Only female C-level at the comany
- She was the only C-level to have 10-20-30-40% vesting, everyome else had 25-25-25-25% (and she only found this out due to the S1-filing). Oh, when hired she was told that all execs have the same backdated vesting. Actually, just her.
- Only C-level to have taken a company public, yet only C-level not invited to the roadshow with the excuse that “someone needs to hold the fort” (while the boys who have never done this have fun, I’m adding)
- Only C-level to be excluded from board meetings
- Her performance reviews did not mention business results, but focused on her being too “combatative”

How did this even happen at a comany with 70% female user base? How is it remotey okay? Does the Pinterest CEO and C-level have this clear of a beef with anyone who is not a white dude like they all are?

https://medium.com/@francoise_93266/the-pinterest-paradox-cupcakes-and-toxicity-57ed6bd76960

This comes off the back of black people sharing how there is a “den of discrimination” at Pinterest: https://wapo.st/39G2yge

People working at Pinterest: what do you do think? Does this refect the day-to-day? And is it really a thing for women to have different (worse) equity vesting to men at Pinterest??

#pinterest #pinterestipo

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  • From my point of view (L6 manager), I haven’t seen this behavior in my org. I’m sure like any decently sized company, there are issues. Re: this specifically, Ben basically came out and said she wasn’t the right fit and got pushed out. I’m sure getting pushed out feels bad, not sure all of her complaints can be blamed on sexism. I don’t think Ben is that kind of person. (I’ve been with the company for 5+ years)
    Aug 12, 2020 11
    • Pinterest / Eng
      byebye1

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      byebye1
      Getting pushed out for retaliation IS an issue by leadership. It’s shame if you’re at Pinterest since >5 yrs & comfortable, you don’t care about others! That makes you shitty human!
      Aug 13, 2020
    • @rlfL25 Did you read our internal blind? Someone pointed out how exec comp structure is determined (as written in our public SEC filings). Unlikely due to policy change because policies don’t determine exec comp - each is determined and approved by the board on a case by case basis.

      Also, another post revealed something about the chronology of events that employees are overlooking. The examples of new directs that the company is saying were given the same backloaded vesting schedule to discredit FB’s claims were hired AFTER FB logged complaints that she was misled and unfairly given an unfavorable backloaded vesting schedule. It’s not a crazy notion that the company could’ve done this to protect themselves because it does look really strange that at the time of her hiring and given the criticality of her role, she was f***ed with her vesting vs. her male peers.
      Aug 18, 2020
  • I have worked there as engineer so I can speak only about eng org. Pinterest is a shitshow in terms of engineering leadership. It is full of politics and highly incompetent managers. Hiring standards are at all time low which is creating all this BS. It's good for them that their stock popped up but overall it's no less than tier3 company. Current employees are resting, vesting and doing politics while enjoying the hard work of folks who worked there in the past.
    Aug 12, 2020 13
  • This is a good example of why it’s important to share your salary info with your peers
    Aug 11, 2020 2
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    RmOi55

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    RmOi55
    Thanks for the summary OP.
    Aug 11, 2020 0
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    wassupdog

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    wassupdog
    This Is bold and more power to her. This will help her in landing next role immensely but I doubt anything would change at Pinterest
    Aug 11, 2020 3
    • Just a thought-- maybe she is incompetent. I don't really know anything about that. But the compensation and vesting details are decided before joining. So the company didn't know if the output is equal or unequal.
      Aug 16, 2020
    • Compensation might not be equal. But vesting should be the same, right? Maybe she was awarded lesser RSUs. But it should still be 25-25-25-25 I feel.
      Aug 17, 2020