Too nice for its own good - Anonymous employee Pinterest Employee Review

2.0
Mar 14, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Co-workers are some of the nicest people I've ever met - Very strong brand - Users are not the typical power users of tech product which is a good thing

Cons

- Nice co-workers are also the most passive aggressive people I've met which leads to A LOT of dysfunction and ironically the most backstabbing because they can't be direct with you - A good majority of the employees don't actually use the product and actually understand why Pinners use it - Very little urgency at a company that still needs to prove itself - Hasn't launched anything meaningful in the past year - Diversity is laughable and no senior leadership except one - IMO its a huge distraction for the company when its this fake and its always bad when your chief diversity hire is the only news that the company is making - first focus on making a great product and if you really care about diversity actually hire women into senior leadership - stop faking it

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