Poor leadership is tanking a once great product - Software Engineer Pinterest Employee Review

2.0
27 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people in general are amazing- smart, hard working, helpful, funny. Great communities in Slack and engaging events with creativity and camaraderie. Great remote-first environment and some decent benefits. The product drives inspiration and joy and it's useful in a plethora of ways. Longtime Pinner personally, and I loved how people would light up when I said where I worked.

Cons

The CEO and executive leadership team are sinking the product into oblivion. The app is completely overrun with ads now, making it an awful user experience. Leadership doesn't listen to employees when we've brought up major user pain points, and makes terrible financial decisions, focusing more on publicity than the actual product. The toxicity is trickling down. It's not the same company it once was and they've kicked out or scared off some of the most dedicated and passionate employees. It's genuinely sad to watch something so wonderful tank so hard.

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1.0
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Pros

benefits and pay and (used to be) remote flexibility, platform used to be unique (no longer, just AI slop)

Cons

toxic, fake environment where people are encouraged to only look out for themselves, teams work in silos for shortterm gains no stable leadership or leadership vision in company culture and growth no leadership transparency or genuineness, middle managers are products of nepotism or false promises no focus on career growth or development diversity and inclusion is just for show - not ingrained in values or practice filled with tech company veterans all trying to recreate toxicity from ex-employers

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