Pros: - Work from home - Good pay

Cons: - Work-life balance - Constant deadlines that need to be done right away

Pros: Mountains of data to explore and process. Solid infrastructure and tools. A product that people love and a company that nurtures it. Organized onboarding processes get you up to speed quickly. Full of refugees from Google, Facebook, and other top tech companies. You learn from the best tech has to offer. Lots of new graduate hires to give you a fresh perspective and keep you grounded. Weekly Q&A with Ben isn't some canned event where questions are pre-selected and vetted to avoid uncomfortable questions. It's a town hall meeting where citizens can speak directly to the mayor. Authenticity is valued here. Meaningful equity.

Cons: The chairs kind of suck. Can be overwhelming when you first join.

Pros: Attracts a lot of average product managers and strong designers applying for product-design centric companies. However, we have a lot of trouble attracting and keeping seasoned engineers. We also tend to attract micromanaging engineering managers who like to run teams like sweatshops, focusing on tactics rather than strategy.

Cons: I have been in this company for a little over two years. I have never witnessed so much office politics and power struggle as I have seen at Pinterest. There are plenty of smaller and larger places that are operated a lot more professionally than Pinterest. Trust is completely eroded throughout the chain of command. We have rotated through three different Heads of Engineering: one from Amazon, another from Shopkick, and another from Palantir. This seat is vacant again, held temporarily by our previous Head of Product/President. We are in the midst of another round of personnel shuffling. Many of our most experienced and earliest engineers have left the company. We have lost the war with Instagram or Snapchat, and Leadership is still busy figuring out what our product is really about and how to structure marketing, sales, engineering, product management, and partner management.