Slow career progression & bad managers - Anonymous employee Etsy Employee Review

2.0
21 June 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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.

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Cons

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