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Friendly work atmosphere.

Knitcons, hack weeks, and Pinniversity (internal learning opportunities) are great.

Conveniently located away from Market Street and the Financial District.

An option extension program for employees who have completed two years is commendable. (This doesn't matter for new employees as they get RSUs.)

User growth metrics make me wonder if it's another Twitter in the making.

No 401k match, gym membership benefits.

Org. structures in some teams don't make sense. Why would you have a "Head of X" reporting another Head of ..?

Very painful promotion process: write packets, find peers, submit to committee, etc. (blindly copied from Google) makes no sense for an engineering team of 250!

Iterates slowly despite having "Go" as one of the core values. Nobody knows how many weeks it takes on average to productize an idea.

Old-timers don't seem to be motivated and they are just waiting to finish the four-year mark.

Food is mostly average, but once or twice a month, it's really good.

Dear CEO, please provide terse and direct answers in Friday's Q&A.

Dear Head of [Department Name - please specify], please put realistic projections in your presentations. It's hard to drink your Kool-Aid.

Encourage team rotation for engineers.