Pinterest founders are business+design. Therefore the company is not engineering first, it's product and design first. This is why it's not particularly loved

Pinterest founders are business+design. Therefore the company is not engineering first, it's product and design first. This is why it's not particularly loved on HN, and this is also why the tech stack is nothing special (it's not bad, it's just not special). What is special is the unbelievable product market fit. Engaged Pinterest users 1) spend a shitton of time on the app (hours a day) and 2) interact very positively with ads (this is VERY purposeful and part of the product first company style). I think their recipe makes for a great company, but it's not the most fun for engineers to work on (those things don't always if ever correlate).