Pinterest

I've read every single 1 and 2-star review on Glassdoor. Some complaints are definitely valid, but comments about Pinterest being a toxic/backstabbing/political workplace don't resonate with me or any coworkers I've spoken with.

• Strong growth in terms of both users and revenue
• Product that people love and their eyes light up when you tell them where you work
• Company is still small enough where it is easy for someone to come in and have a big impact
• Great work-life balance
• Warm, friendly culture

• Co-founders claim to not have an inner circle, but both of them are introverts. I've never seen them go out of their way to talk to or get to know employees outside of their inner circle.

Even when the CEO used to move desks frequently and I sat next to him for a month, he never once spoke a word to anyone else working in the pod. And that is exactly how you end up with an inner circle.

• Product team has had a lot of failures (Placed Pins, Q&A, Conversations, Digest, Library, etc.). Reasons for these failures are because the product team promotes PMs that are good at talking a big game and telling leadership exactly what they want to hear. However, PMs that have a different approach or think differently from leadership, but are great at executing against goals and delivering successful features/projects, have left, been sidelined, or pushed out.

Talk and ideas are cheap; product leadership should reward the PMs that can demonstrate they are consistently able to execute and deliver.

• Company needs to hire a strong technical leader at the Director's level. Engineers don't feel like their needs and concerns are currently being well represented at the leadership level.