Vinted career in Lithuania: working at the country's first unicorn
Every foreign engineer in Vilnius has an opinion about Vinted, and most of it is second hand. It is the company Lithuanians point to when they want to prove the country builds real technology, the one that turned a student's moving-house problem into a marketplace used across Europe. It is also, for a lot of candidates, the first name on the list and the first rejection.
So here is the picture from the outside in: what the Lithuanian operation actually is, what it pays, what people who work there say when they are anonymous, and who the place suits.
What Vinted's Lithuanian operation looks like
Vinted started in Vilnius in 2008, when Milda Mitkutė was moving flats, had too many clothes to take with her, and Justas Janauskas built her a site to sell them on. That is the origin story the company still tells, and it is roughly accurate. The turn came in 2016, when the Dutch entrepreneur Thomas Plantenga arrived as a strategy consultant, stayed, and became chief executive. Lightspeed led a €128 million round in 2019 that valued the business at €1 billion, making Vinted Lithuania's first unicorn. By April 2026, a secondary share transaction put the valuation at €8 billion (Wikipedia).
The 2025 numbers explain why. Gross merchandise value reached €10.8 billion, up 47% year on year. Revenue crossed the billion mark at €1.1 billion, up 38%. Net profit came in at €62 million, which was 19% down on the year before, and free cash flow was €137 million (Vinted). That falling profit line is not a wobble, it is a decision: the company is spending its margin on two new businesses. Vinted Go, its own parcel network, now runs in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain with access to more than 500,000 pickup and drop-off points, and Vinted Pay launched a wallet for members during the year.
Group headcount is somewhere north of 2,200 across 26 or more European markets, with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, London, Luxembourg and Paris. The centre of gravity, though, is still here. Sodra records show Vinted, UAB with roughly 1,700 insured employees in Lithuania and an average gross salary of about €4,687 a month (rekvi.lt, from Sodra data). Set against a national average of roughly €2,480 gross, that is close to double, and it makes Vinted one of the best-paying large employers in the country. There is a second Lithuanian office in Kaunas, which is worth knowing if you would rather not live in Vilnius; Kaunas as a place to work covers that trade-off.
What working there looks like
Employees in Lithuania rate Vinted 4.3 out of 5 on Glassdoor across 86 reviews, with culture and values at 4.5, diversity and inclusion at 4.6, work-life balance at 4.3, and both career opportunities and compensation at 4.0. Around three quarters say they would recommend it to a friend (Glassdoor). For a company of this size that is a strong set of scores, and the shape of them is more informative than the headline: people like the colleagues and the culture, and are more lukewarm about pay and progression.
The benefits are unusually concrete. There is a learning budget of at least €3,000 a year, a share options plan with regular secondary offerings (which matters, because options you can never sell are a promise rather than a benefit), a workation policy allowing up to 90 days a year working from elsewhere in the EU, and parental leave for primary caregivers stretching to 18 to 24 months with company top-ups on the state payments. For people moving to Lithuania, relocation packages typically run from €3,000 to €10,000 depending on where you are coming from and whether you are bringing a family, alongside practical help with documents, housing and bank accounts; the company has also promoted considerably larger limited-time bonuses when it wants to fill particular roles (Vinted Careers).
The recurring complaints are worth taking seriously too. Pay comes up repeatedly as below market, which requires unpacking, and I will do that at the end. Reviewers also flag inconsistent mid-level management and slow decision-making, with changes needing broad agreement before they move. That is the standard pathology of a company that grew from a startup into a fifteen-hundred-person organisation in about a decade, and anyone joining should expect process rather than improvisation.
What kinds of roles Vinted hires for in Lithuania
Engineering is the largest function, and it is the one with the fiercest competition per opening. Around it sit data science and analytics, product, and design. On the commercial side there is marketing, business and commercial roles, and legal. Then there are the functions most candidates do not think of when they think of Vinted: payments operations, which has grown with Vinted Pay and involves genuine regulatory work, and warehouse operations, which comes with the Go logistics business and is a different job in a different building from anything at headquarters.
The working language is English, which is the practical reason Vinted appears on every list of employers that hire foreigners in Lithuania. If you want the wider view of where that is true and where it is not, Is Lithuania an English-friendly country? sets out the pattern, and the top employers in Vilnius puts Vinted in context with the rest of the field.
The honest take
The pay complaint and the Sodra figure look contradictory, and resolving them tells you most of what you need to know about joining Vinted.
Both are true. Measured against Lithuania, Vinted pays close to double the national average and sits near the top of the local market. Measured against Amsterdam, Berlin or London, where a good portion of the company's engineers have offers from, it does not. Reviews are written by people making the second comparison; your own decision depends on which one you are actually making. If you are already living in Lithuania, or moving here for reasons that include the cost of living, this is one of the better-paid places to work in the country. If you are weighing Vilnius against a Western European hub on salary alone, Vinted will lose that arithmetic, and the net salary calculator will show you exactly how it loses it.
The second thing to be clear-eyed about is the stage. Vinted is not the scrappy startup its founding story suggests, and it is no longer in the hypergrowth hiring where a pulse and enthusiasm got you in. It is a profitable, mid-size European technology company that is deliberately trading margin for two new business lines, and the interview bar reflects that. What you get in exchange for the process and the occasional layer of bureaucracy is stability that very few companies at this valuation can offer: real revenue, real profit, and no dependence on the next funding round.
The people it suits are those who want to work on a genuinely large-scale consumer product without leaving Lithuania, and who value a strong culture and a serious learning budget over the last few hundred euros of base pay. The people it does not suit are those who need fast personal progression, who dislike consensus-driven decisions, or who are optimising purely for salary. Worth noting for anyone in that last group: the options with a functioning secondary market are the part of the package that has historically done the heavy lifting, and that is an argument for staying rather than for arriving.