Great people, executive pressure increasing - Sr. Software Engineer Etsy Employee Review

It feels like upper/executive management is increasingly interested in squeezing the business model to make the market happy. It's not enough to keep growth stable when the world is in turmoil, there needs to be more growth than there was before. As a result, it feels like upper management sees DEI, employee wellbeing, social causes, seller wellbeing, company reputation as expenses that they would gladly cut if they stopped penciling out in favor of keeping them around. Executive Q&As have started including "Some of our competitors don't do this at all for their employees, so you should be happy we're only reducing this" type phrasing, which is concerning. There's also pressure for teams to align their work to market fads, to show how the company is keeping up on each new tech buzzword even if it would be harmful to the company's reputation to actually carry out & interest stops as soon as the next hot thing shows up.