Pinterest

Teams are small, and the area of ownership is large. For example, the Web, iOS, and Android teams have only about 5 engineers each.

Technology decisions are still evolving, and you have the opportunity to guide the direction. For example, there's a recently created service written in Go, and some teams are experimenting with Erlang.

Pinterest doesn't yet have a strong engineering brand, so engineers are encouraged to give community talks and contribute to open-source projects.

Are you passionate about a certain area, like "build tools" or "performance"? You can lead a cross-functional "X-Team" to drive progress in that area.

There are "Make-a-thons" where there's an explicit goal of shipping a certain number of projects created during the event.

Product metrics are moving in the right direction, and the future of the company looks bright.

• For engineers, on-call duty is not fairly distributed.
• We've been without a VP of Engineering for several months.
• A year ago, everyone knew each other's names. That's not true anymore.