Great place to work
Great place to work
Great work-life balance, especially compared to other startups in the valley (looking at you, Uber).
Very high potential. Pinterest can monetize users extremely well since it knows their interests and can deliver targeted advertising. It also has strong user traction and is on track to surpass Twitter in terms of U.S. MAUs sometime in the next year. Based on that, Pinterest could easily reach a $30 billion+ valuation in a couple of years.
Not any politics. The culture is friendly and collaborative, and there has not been any politics that I've seen.
The company puts a big emphasis on getting feedback from employees about what is working and what isn't, and then acting on that feedback.
The leadership team is very transparent. There is a weekly Q&A with the CEO and bi-weekly lunches where the leadership team presents high-level strategy.
- The company is spread across multiple buildings, which makes it hard to meet people outside of your org (i.e., engineering, partners, etc.).
- They have equity refreshes, which is awesome, but the difference between the refresh for top performers and average performers is negligible, which is bad if you're a top performer.
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I was contacted by the University Recruiter. They were very helpful and provided resources for preparing for the technical challenges. The technical code challenge was on Karat.io. It was 4 hours to solve the challenge. I cleared the challenge and
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I received an HR call as soon as I applied and scheduled a technical phone screen. They outsource their phone screen process, and an interviewer from another company conducted the entire phone interview via video call. Since everything was recorded,
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I spoke to the recruiter once on the phone, who set up a technical phone screen. The recruiter took forever to set up the phone screen—about 15 days. The phone screen involved writing code on a shared code editor (Collabedit.com). The interviewer
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San Francisco, California, United StatesJanuary 1, 2020I was contacted by the University Recruiter. They were very helpful and provided resources for preparing for the technical challenges. The technical code challenge was on Karat.io. It was 4 hours to solve the challenge. I cleared the challenge and
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San Francisco, California, United StatesJune 1, 2018I received an HR call as soon as I applied and scheduled a technical phone screen. They outsource their phone screen process, and an interviewer from another company conducted the entire phone interview via video call. Since everything was recorded,
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San Francisco, California, United StatesFebruary 1, 2015I spoke to the recruiter once on the phone, who set up a technical phone screen. The recruiter took forever to set up the phone screen—about 15 days. The phone screen involved writing code on a shared code editor (Collabedit.com). The interviewer
