Pros: - WLB is fine. - Pay is decent. - Fully remote (so far).

Cons: There was an unclear career development and a very unclear career path. The leadership and management were terrible. There was poor vision and a lot of churn.

Pros: Very humble and smart employees on all of the teams at Pinterest. Teams are super collaborative, especially between eng, design, and product. Able to have a ton of impact on products and even prototype and ship your own ideas.

Cons: Being split between multiple buildings has been a pain point for engineering and the company in general.

Pros: Teams are small, and the area of ownership is large. For example, the Web, iOS, and Android teams have only about 5 engineers each. Technology decisions are still evolving, and you have the opportunity to guide the direction. For example, there's a recently created service written in Go, and some teams are experimenting with Erlang. Pinterest doesn't yet have a strong engineering brand, so engineers are encouraged to give community talks and contribute to open-source projects. Are you passionate about a certain area, like "build tools" or "performance"? You can lead a cross-functional "X-Team" to drive progress in that area. There are "Make-a-thons" where there's an explicit goal of shipping a certain number of projects created during the event. Product metrics are moving in the right direction, and the future of the company looks bright.

Cons: - For engineers, on-call duty is not fairly distributed. - We've been without a VP of Engineering for several months. - A year ago, everyone knew each other's names. That's not true anymore.