Potential vs. Reality - Anonymous employee X Employee Review

2.0
Feb 8, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the smartest, nicest, loveliest people I have ever worked with are at Twitter. Offices are nice, perks are on par with similar companies. Decent pay when I was hired, though not sure what it is today. The platform is still a pillar in modern media, especially in sports, politics and entertainment. Though this allure is also dissipating.

Cons

Absolute mess from a strategic and managerial perspective, across all departments and areas. Decisions made with ego rather than strategy in mind and with opinion rather than insight, which leads to very poor career advancement opportunities. Developing an echo chamber culture and mentality. With atrocious middle management and lack of direction, you see people and teams turning on each other more and more. High turnover and constant departures at all levels. Embarrassingly poor diversity across race, gender and age. Morale could not be any lower.

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5.0
Jun 11, 2025
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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
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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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