Etsy Employee Reviews about "lot of people"

Pros

People and culture. Lots of terrific people and generally all very collegial, mindful and creative

Cons

Very little top down direction. This is also one of the things that makes the company great but can be frustrating at times.

Pros

Very friendly people, very laid back. Everyone keeps a close watch on the door and only talented, non-jerk ambitious kind people come on board. There are very few locked doors. If you have the time and ambition to make something better, you can, and you own it, and no one makes unreasonable demands of you.

Cons

The downside to having lots of opportunity and potential is that you might often feel guilty about not doing more. So if that applies to you, be wary. The product decisions are traditionally all made by committee. This often leads to underwhelming products even though everyone is talented, because this culture of being kind leads to few coherent decisions and a lot of input from a lot of people ends up washing out more pointed ideas. Also the size is ridiculous and this is due to reasons inherent to a venture capital sort of company, they just need to have a lot of employees. The more employees the stronger the company seems and the more growth they can realize. This has made the company change from a giant family to more of a 'normal' segmented business where no one knows anyone else but, as we are all employed here, we are part of the 'size' of the company, and it's hard to complain about.

Pros

lots of people at Etsy are among the kindest i've ever met. the work leads to some interesting problems to solve, the office spaces are really nice, management tends to listen to buyers and sellers when they can. internal promotions are pretty common.

Cons

some perks have been recently cut back to cut costs. understandable, but still unfortunate. travel budget is tough for remote employees.

Pros

Competitive pay Talented people Great culture Lots of perks

Cons

Leadership guidance and vision is quite poor

Pros

Great place to work if you're not really about work. Fun people, lots of social stuff going on, lots of free time and mental cycles to devote to other life things like working out or reading or taking care of kids. Flashy office.

Cons

You are probably going to bleed skills a bit from lack of practice. Low hiring standards, so you're not really working with the best or brightest. Very cliquish and political. It seemed like most of the interesting work was hoarded by a few people, and the rest were fighting over the scraps. If you are not an uber-hipster, you're probably not going to fit in very well. Extremely weak management can't seem to move the needle on anything. Also, negotiate your starting salary well, because adjustments are few and far between.

Pros

Nice people Free food (though lots of repeats) and nice office if you're in the Brooklyn area Office is dog friendly Lots of good employee resource groups and activities

Cons

Passive aggressive behavior (back stabbing) A lot of terrible middle managers Meager annual increases and no accounting for inflation Clique of higher ups that came from Amex

Pros

Benefits, work life balance, mission, and positive impact on the world

Cons

A lot of bad managers who have no clue how to manage people. People get promoted to or hired for manager positions without regards to their people skills, leading to bad chemistry on many teams. Career progression can be very slow and coupled with below par compensation for many positions, it's hard to build a long term career here. Tooling is falling behind and internal systems are not reliable. Pervasive fear of change and boldness especially due to fear of sellers and an overbearing legal team. Management doesn't listen.

Pros

Amazing office, great perks, flexible working

Cons

Colleagues were burnt out and a lot of people seemed unhappy

Pros

I'm seeing Etsy's culture change to focus on results, accountability and actionable feedback. We are seeing some of the best business results and delivering features at the fastest pace in the last 2 years. While the old Etsy culture was about being nice and avoiding confrontation, it was slowly killing the business from the inside.

Cons

There are still a lot of people here having trouble adjusting to the culture shift, and thus are leaving the company and writing poor reviews on Glassdoor. Unfortunately, we are losing a good amount of domain knowledge with the attrition. However, I'm optimistic we are keeping our best performers and people are willing to work hard to make the company grow.

Pros

nice people great wlb + benefits great office everyone smiles at you and wants to be your friend problems are relevant to lots of other internet companies

Cons

career development is hard and confusing too much sql lots of politics career progression seems to depend on how much folks like you, rather than what you actually produce compensation is lower than peer companies