Etsy

It feels like everyone I interact with wants to do the right thing. That goes a long way for me, and I'm wary of the limits of that within a large company.

But it feels like people care about what they do and want to make the socially beneficial things that the company talks up happen. They're continuing to be remote-friendly, which is good when that's in question more.

I haven't felt pressured to put in extra hours. Instead, there's interest in making sure that you're able to use your PTO, volunteer hours, floating holidays, mental health days, etc.

It feels like upper/executive management is increasingly interested in squeezing the business model to make the market happy. It's not enough to keep growth stable when the world is in turmoil; there needs to be more growth than there was before. As a result, it feels like upper management sees DEI, employee wellbeing, social causes, seller wellbeing, and company reputation as expenses that they would gladly cut if they stopped penciling out in favor of keeping them around. Executive Q&As have started including "Some of our competitors don't do this at all for their employees, so you should be happy we're only reducing this" type phrasing, which is concerning.

There's also pressure for teams to align their work to market fads, to show how the company is keeping up on each new tech buzzword, even if it would be harmful to the company's reputation to actually carry out. Interest stops as soon as the next hot thing shows up.

Etsy talks admirable talk about what we believe in. Everyone I work with believes in that mission, and it's a big part of why people choose to work here versus our more market-obsessed competitors. Show that we believe that doing the right thing will bring the market to us.