Poorly Managed - Software Engineer Pinterest Employee Review

1.0
5 Mar 2016
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Pros

Product still have some potential.

Cons

After a number of high profile acquisitions post January 2015, the company culture and performance has plummeted. Here's a recap on ongoing management issues that is now at least four quarters old. - Product Management does not have a clear vision on how to direct company goals resulting in never ending planning sessions with no clear execution record. - Growth Management is incompetent. No accountability after 7 months of mismanagement. - Infrastructure reorganization and disposal of long time employees that have contributed significantly. Mistrust through management favoritism. - Bogus Chief titles and Head/Director titles. Hypocritical about maintaining a flat culture. Results don't matter, special relationships with leadership matter more. - Nobody is technical at the top. Company has outgrew them long ago. Retained for unclear reasons. - CEO haven't outgrew himself. Multiple layers of Product Management leadership that are mandating product direction, it takes about 5 layers of humans before it gets to the staff that are executing. Plus a CEO still micromanaging product directions through hunches.

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