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Work life balance is frowned upon. If you're not in the office late into the evening and answering emails on the weekend you're not working hard enough. Good luck trying to focus in one of the worst open floor plan offices I have ever worked in. Row after row of bench style desks where stretching your arms might mean an awkward apology to the coworkers sitting on either side of you less than 3 feet away. They typically cram 50-100 people in a given area with no barriers, not even half walls, so you spend the majority of your working day trying to drown out the distractions. Management is unprofessional and frequently in a position just one level higher than they should be. There is no coherent vision for the company except ignore what's best for the users if it means money can be made. Finally, there's a reason why Twitter reported the worst representation of women in technical roles (90% male, 10% female). This place is a brogrammer haven. As a woman your faced with a culture that screams petulant college bro from the first day you walk through the doors. Women are frequently given work of lesser importance, have their ideas attributed their male colleagues, are passed up for promotions, and generally made to feel unwelcome. To top it off the women's organizations within Twitter carry no real weight at the company. They are open to all employees so women don't have a safe place to talk about the serious issues facing them without it being made into some kind of joke by male engineers or used against them later.

As a rational candidate, you can observe the high rate senior engineers and engineers managers departures have left the company after 3-4 years. If you are optimistic person, take the fact they are fully vested and keep the pros. Otherwise, read-on.. Since the IPO, eng managers are unable to push back upper management decisions. Frequently, because they are young first-time managers, they start acting erratically against their own team, including arbitrary job terminations (e.g.: engineers were recently promoted before being terminated under the excuse of underperforming). As result, they inadvertently create dysfunctional work environment, since people either get emotionally detached from work or fighting for survival (in a remote office it becomes even tougher b/c there is no place to go.) At IC level, if you've been in the industry long enough, you know what to expect from engineers in self-preservation, e.g.: code being pushed into private git repo's WHILE design review is still underway to get ahead of the "competition", obnoxious code reviews to slow down the "competitor", never questioning dysfunctional management decisions in meetings (playing the favoritism game.) Twitter was once a great place to work because it fostered creativity in engineers, giving the opportunity to grow their careers truly on a merits basis, i.e.: from own ideas to execution. Most of the work now is on-demand basis and most of self-expansion would happen during your extra time (yet not very valuable nevertheless.)