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Makeathon’s Big Milestone, a decade of passion projects

We’re celebrating big at Pinterest this week because it’s our 10th annual, and first hybrid Makeathon! Makeathon is Pinterest’s internal version of a hackathon, where each year, Pinployees come together to work on passion projects and hacks that are…

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Good just got even better: Work at Pinterest, from Anywhere

Pinterest is excited to announce a major enhancement to our new work model, PinFlex, effective July 1st. This new benefit will allow eligible full-time employees to spend up to three months working outside of their country of employment over a…

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Inspiration to realization: Pinterest’s 7th Knit Con

What do Alpacas, the science of Sous Vide, and acclaimed TED speaker Neil Pasricha have in common? They were all part of the jam-packed agenda for Pinterest’s 7th Knit Con this year.

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Inspired to evolve: Pinterest’s values reimagined

How Pinterest went about evolving our values as the company grew and transformed Our values. Who we are. Who we aspire to be. Earlier this year, Pinterest announced an evolved set of company values. Our values have always helped…

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People Behind the Product: Get to know Pinterest’s Carina Iverson, Senior Content Policy Manager

Pinterest is thrilled to announce that we’ve expanded our misinformation guidelines by adding a specific climate misinformation policy to keep false and misleading claims around climate change off of our platform. This policy makes us the only major…

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Calibrating your career compass: How to navigate the interview process

By: Ebitie Amughan The global pandemic brought many changes to how we live and work in the last two years. It also provided an opportunity for people to assess what’s important to them, and introduced new phrases to our dictionaries such as the Great…

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Voices of Pinterest Tokyo: Chloe Wu, Creator Growth Manager, Japan

In Life at Pinterest’s new series, Voices of Pinterest Tokyo, get to know the Pinployees doing incredible work at our Tokyo, JP office. Hi Chloe! Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us about your experience as a Pinployee on our Tokyo…

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People Behind the Product: Get to know Pinterest’s Recruiting Coordinators

For every talent recruiter and sourcer, there’s a recruiting coordinator behind the scenes scheduling interviews, connecting with job candidates, and ensuring the engine runs smoothly. We sat down with the Pinterest Recruiting Coordination team to…

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Pinterest’s Makeathon 2021

The Pinterest Makeathon is a time when employees come together to work on passion projects and hacks that they may not have time for in their normal scope of work. We recently held our 9th annual and second virtual Makeathon, and people from across…

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“A dash of daydreaming” – Pinterest’s Ashley Cook on her experience partnering with New York City’s Rising Ground

When I started to seriously think about what I wanted to do with my life, no one told me I could get a job using my imagination. My parents worked as a nurse and boilermaker — the advertising world was as foreign to them as Mars. After seeing Free…

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Pinterests Australian expansion

We sat down with Lottie Laws and Sam Christou, Sales Managers in Pinterest’s Sydney office, to discuss the exciting growth Pinterest is having in the region and the career opportunities that come along with it. Read on to learn more!

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