Smart people, huge impact - Engineering Manager X Employee Review

5.0
Feb 6, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great core values, eng principles, and org skills help everyone be better employees and build the best products Twitter University makes learning scala, python, and even management a breeze. Extreme transparency from the leadership. You get to work on an incredibly important product with huge impacts on the world. Low performers are actually fired. Great perks - food, barista Impact is rewarded, not politics. Engineering management encourages rigor. Work/life balance is great, I get a ton done and work 10-6.

Cons

As the company grows up, the old hacker culture and the new rigorous engineering cultures are clashing a bit. Gone are the days of shipping lots of hacky MVPs and moving on to the next shiny thing. This is a product that hundreds of millions of people use, so rigor has gone up a lot. This can result in different engineering philosophies and different levels of quality in the same system.

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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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