Chaotic Company that claims to be "transparent" - Anonymous employee X Employee Review

2.0
Nov 2, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, nice work space, decent pay, fun people, and yummy food!

Cons

This place is a joke. They hired me only to let me go shortly after in their recent reorg. Shows the lack of planning and forecasting which is consistent throughout Twitter. Jack's leadership style is to do what he is told by the board/investors - he doesn't really take a stance but constantly claims he is transparent. Twitter is a very chaotic organization - lots of teams doing a lot of the same things with 0 communication between teams, nothing is streamlined, no clear processes, no clear understanding on what to build your strategy around as upper management seems unclear themselves and to be frank too worried about their own jobs to truly coach their team which made it hard to know what it is I was supposed to be focusing on. The day of the reorg email access to those being canned was cut off prior to people being notified that their jobs were being eliminated. We definitely were not treated in the "respectful manner" as Jack promised. HR was a nightmare to deal with, nobody had the answers and we were tossed around which is another typical Twitter trait. Nobody wants to own anything. You are constantly thrown around from person to person when you have a question and people sometimes just don't respond to you at all for months as there is nobody holding anybody accountable. No sense of urgency. People roll in at 9-10am every day and leave by 5pm and hardly anyone works on Friday. And they wonder why the company isn't doing well.

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