Profit over People - Senior Engineering Program Manager Etsy Employee Review

2.0
4 Feb 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the best coworkers I've ever had

Cons

Culture has completely gone down the drain. Tenured employees that are the heartbeat of the organization being let go with little to no warning, not to mention the disproportionate number of LGBT+ and people of color included in large scale layoffs. Top down management is totally lackluster, but Etsy brands itself as a place where people matter over profits and that's just not the case. DEI efforts are a total joke and are slowly and quietly being dissolved. Don't be fooled - this is just another tech company and HR will always protect the interests of the company, despite smiling in your face.

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5.0
25 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Empathetic, smart people in a lot places.

Cons

Senior leadership has changed alot in the years since the pandemic highs and it's not quite stabilized. Overvalued executors and undervalued those with high EQ and people leadership. Promoted executors into senior roles and then they floundered and exited, or worse they chased away better potential fits for those roles who were overlooked.

3.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

cool culture flexible work arrangements, decent pay, cool work.

Cons

outsourcing everything they can, selling all they can for parts, its a sinking ship of a company. keep in mind that they spend more on labor in Mexico city than in USA! What a sham! should be taken off US Stock exchange for that! Loosing users at a steady rate year of year. I'd avoid. no growth opportunity. Not brand vision.

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