All that glitters is not gold - Software Engineer X Employee Review

3.0
Jul 14, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- A product with lots of promise - A consumer brand with huge recognition - Awesome location, food, and culture

Cons

- Inexperienced management, specially the middle tier - Slow execution and too much politics - Promotion is hard to come by, unless you are one of those chosen ones - Having a hard time recruiting good candidates and so it is full of mediocre engineers and recent grads - Competition in social media space is getting tough and Twitter is not positioned to stay relevant for long due to the way it executes

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5.0
Jun 11, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

great community for web engineers. lots of mentorship available sessions to knowledge share really helped with growth

Cons

lots of projects do not make it to production lots of hoops before projects have a chance to be developed or make it hopefully to production

4.0
Jun 5, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Good salary - High Ownership - Interesting Work - Get to learn more broadly of how things work at scale compared to other global social media companies - Equity Growth Overall I have gotten to take on really interesting work here and am alongside colleagues I respect and appreciate. Equity has appreciated significantly.

Cons

- Constant Layoffs/poor attrition rates - Understaffed - Lack of organization/communication from leadership

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