A huge disappointment - Anonymous employee Pinterest Employee Review

2.0
4 Aug 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Really nice, smart and caring employees - Great mission people can really get behind - Strong challenges across the entire org

Cons

- There's a weird facade at the surface. You're fed that this is "the inspiration" company and the culture is "nice", but when you're facing real challenges and opportunities to give feedback to make the company better, it's really all fake. Pulse surveys are a joke. Many teams are getting poor results, but the follow up actions aren't good enough. - There are deep cultural problems and HR lacks severe empathy in driving real cultural change and they aren't driving the right behaviors to make the company better. Minorities are leaving the company at an alarming rate. - Lack of accountability: processes and OKRs are constantly changing, so you don't know what to focus on or what the new process is. Also see note above re: pulse results. - Depending on your org, but the opportunities for growth are lacking overall. - Managers are junior, so you need to be paired with a really good one and that will make a big difference on your career.

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Pinterest Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We are so sorry you’re having a negative experience at Pinterest and appreciate you sharing these details so we can use them to affect change. We are deeply committed to changing our culture for the better and have started tangible, measurable work toward improvement. Specific feedback is vital to our process, so we invite you to share (if you're comfortable) via our anonymous hotline: (844) 704-6249, and/or connect with People Experience, your HRBP, or myself directly. Jo, CHRO

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