Great product, smart engineers, but lots of politics in engineering - Software Engineer Pinterest Employee Review

3.0
16 May 2014
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Pros

Most of engineers are smart and great. They are willing to work on exciting things without thinking about promotion. And product is fun to work on.

Cons

Too much politics in engineering part. A small amount of engineers (some managers as well) are not putting pinners first. Instead of contributing code, they are playing politics and delivering very negative culture here. Engineers who want to work on impactful things are very hard to get chance to if projects are against the interests of these people.

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5.0
28 May 2026
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Pros

Work life balance, great office, smart colleagues

Cons

minimum meeting requirements can be tricky depending on your client book

1.0
8 June 2026
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Pros

WLB Remote work (which is slowly ending). Strong ICs

Cons

Poor leadership vision, strategy, and execution. Rebranding products that already exist as net new to chase a headline. Unclear career growth unless you are internally connected to “the right people”. Middle management that is there to boost their career / repackage IC ideas as their own with zero credit. RTO rollout was botched leading to senior sellers leaving. Lots of toxic positivity and virtue signaling

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