Lying Capitalists - Software Engineer Pinterest Employee Review

1.0
Jun 18, 2021
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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 T - a lot of virtue signaling but very little actual policies or management truly 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/company, a lot of performative allyship, a lot of toxic masculinity - Being thrown around to a new team/manager every 6 months (get you in with a good one, transfer you 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

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