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3.0

36% would recommend to a friend

(2,262 total reviews)
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35% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

X has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,262 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The X employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
May 19, 2015
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Pros

- Good senior management. They strive to be honest and transparent. - Good open culture. Many forums to express opinions (especially the internal Q&A tool) and regular "tea-time" allhands meetings - Actually a pretty decent engineering org (despite having several engineers who are mediocre). The company has invested very well in building a good engineering muscle and there are still some very topnotch people doing awesome work. - Good perks! - Great office, outstanding lunch (except Google and Facebook, NO other company's lunch even comes close to to what Twitter offers. )

Cons

- Many strong engineers are leaving. Many teams are just staffed with overwhelming number of mediocre talent. - Some teams have mediocre people from engineers all the way to directors! (Managers and Directors tend to be politically inclined in such teams) - Backend/infrastructure orgs are a mess. Product orgs are an EVEN bigger mess!. The only org that seem to have their act together is the Revenue (ads) engineering org.

1.0
May 12, 2015
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Pros

- Good food - Salary - Fitness classes - As a engineer get a experience how big company is managing product which is used by millions of user

Cons

- Not good engineering development opportunities - Too much hierarchy, sometime you will have to think twice before approaching other engineer - Keep fixing bugs or small feature portrayed as big thing as millions of user affected but agility is lost, as a engineer will not get job satisfaction. - Following is my experience in my team: Senior will show attitude, will not speak in person and communicate only online, which in a way block your work. - Code review system which require senior to approve your code will block you many time. Senior engineers will want you to implement things their own way, so you become just somebody's logic implementor. - NOT a team oriented environment, people are driven by individual contribution metrics, therefore you will see sometime seniors are not that collaborative. Again this depends on which team you are working with though. but this is happening and have seen other people suffering from it. - Didn't find middle management as employee friendly, my manager just talked to senior only. - Advice to not a senior engineer: you may be just dictated by manager, senior engineer, you may be just implementor, and will be lost under big hierarchy. So make sure before joining a team you know the team and people you will be working with.

1.0
Nov 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

okay perks, good salary, some interesting work

Cons

leadership is bad. culture is very weird - I was in one of the hardest working teams, but on average people worked 40 hours a week and a great deal of that was spent not actually working. very easy to see why the company is struggling to increase profits because under-achieving people are paid high salaries to barely work. the engineers are not smart (I do not understand why so many people say their bar is high) and not all that fun to work with.

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