Lots of bad management - Software Engineer Pinterest Employee Review

2.0

30 Oct 2019

Software engineer

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Pros

Fun because lots of young people

Cons

Bad infrastructure made it hard to work (slow build time for Optimus repo, poor code quality control led to repo often being broken), bad management leading to churn in team, no senior engineers because of churn

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5.0

28 May 2026

Client account manager ii

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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 Jun 2026

Sales

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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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