Pros: Great working environment. Great company.

Cons: Things are moving slower than previous years.

Pros: - They have an interesting tech stack.

Cons: - Understaffed - Tight deadlines - Lots of pressure - Complex team dynamic - Underpaid At Pinterest, as a Software Engineer, it's expected that you do more than just what your title says. You create your own work, run meetings, act as the scrum master, own projects, and are pretty much in charge of everything you do. This can be good and bad. For me, it was bad, and here is why. At the beginning, I was told I'd be joining as a full stack developer. I thought the dynamic would be similar to other places. But here, they follow this "enhanced" version of Agile in which you create the tickets, add the description, and document everything (oh boy, do they like their Google Docs in this company) before doing the actual work. You then submit your document for validation, get some feedback, may or may not be approved to move forward, run your project, and finally go back to see what could have been improved. Again, all this could be good for you. But for me, it felt like I was becoming a jack of all trades, and they were saving money by not hiring more people to handle this process more efficiently. Lastly, I didn't code as much as in other places here. My time went into doing other stuff that I felt should have been done by someone else.

Pros: - Good values - Good pay - A few genuine people here and there - Some unique systems that help drive data-driven decision-making

Cons: Not safe for LGBT, especially transgender individuals. There's a lot of virtue signaling, but very little actual policy or management willing to protect LGBT and BIPOC workers. Middle management will absolutely burn you into the ground; they do not care about you at all. Very fake people and company, a lot of performative allyship and toxic masculinity. Being thrown around to a new team or manager every six months. You get put with a good one, then transferred to one that burns you out. Features you work on can be completely trashed, so much for all that work. Management goes out of their way to find every little thing you did wrong and mischaracterize situations to their fullest. Dirty liberal centrists that have no real spine or backbone on anything.