Is X a good company to work for?

X has an overall rating of 3.0 out of 5, based on over 2,812 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has increased by 1% over the last 12 months. 35% of employees would recommend working at X to a friend and 31% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about X have been left by employees working as Software Engineer(Internship) , Intern and Machine Learning Engineer .

Does X pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, X employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.4 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at X. This rating has improved by 4% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at X?

35% of X employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated X 2.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.7 for culture and values and 3.0 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at X?

Software Engineer (239) , Senior Software Engineer (88) , Account Manager (71) , Client Partner (41) , Software Engineer II (37) , Staff Software Engineer (36) , Data Scientist (31) , Director (29) , Product Manager (28) , Intern (26) , Client Account Manager (25) , Manager (25) , Program Manager (22) , Software Engineer(Internship) (22) , Engineering Manager (20)

What are the pros of working at X according to real employee reviews?

"Great culture and business porpuse" ((in 308 reviews)); "The people are great and the work you do makes an impact" ((in 279 reviews)); "The benefits are great and provide additional support for parents and trans/non" ((in 165 reviews)); "Good work life balance in Twitter" ((in 146 reviews)); "Very well pay and good location" ((in 67 reviews))

What are the cons of working at X according to real employee reviews?

"Poor leadership and lack of direction." ((in 94 reviews)); "Poor management and overworked." ((in 90 reviews)); "Managers are inexperienced and given lots of power." ((in 43 reviews)); "Cuts and layoffs" ((in 25 reviews)); "There can be long hours and not every team acknowledges this" ((in 22 reviews))

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3.0

35% would recommend to a friend

(236 total reviews)

Linda Yaccarino

35% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

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3.4

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3.0

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2.8

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2.8

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2.7

Culture & values

2.4

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4.0

Jun 3, 2017

opportunity to work on a well-known consumer product

Data scientist

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CEO approval

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Pros

If you get a thrill from working on a recognizable product that's often in the news, then being at Twitter will provide you with a psychological boost. Strong engineers. Twitter is a frequent OSS contributor. So even though Twitter has a lot of in-house tools and runs its own data centers, you will still get the chance to work with tools that are probably used elsewhere. Good food and plentiful coffee. The company tries hard to be inclusive.

Cons

Location: mid-market is not the most convenient part of the city. I get the sense there is a lot of tech debt in the product, but a lot of effort has been made in the past year to pay it down to make future development easier. A lot of turnover in the revenue team's upper management ranks. Exec turnover is quite high, even though exec compensation is frequently in the news for being way too generous relative to the company's revenue level and growth rate.

4.0

May 13, 2017

Job with a purpouse

Head of marketing insights and analytics

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CEO approval

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Pros

3 things about Twitter: - Twitter is evolving human communications, you are part of doing something good to the world - People are super smart and friendly - You can have great impact

Cons

- Too focused on short term (for obvious reasons) - The salary increase and bonus was too low (or inexistent) this year

4.0

Mar 20, 2017

I love where I work but know Twitter could be better.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Great work-life balance and human flexibility. They value bug fixes and tech-debt cleanup. Projects aren't rushed - quality is key. Blame is rare - they encourage everyone to learn from their mistakes. It's ok to speak openly & try to change processes (too many meetings? speak up!). Everyone on a team seems to have their opinions valued. Designers & PMs ensure the engineers are on board. Jack speaks clearly about Twitter's place in the world, our mission, and values. Jack serves as a good spiritual leader. Jack has the right intentions. Good location.

Cons

Culture died after Jack fired tons of people and cut costs in the wrong areas. Fitness perks and food options have gone down. Perks get slashed left and right, every few months, but they keep giving execs raises. Company-wide happy hours are gone so it's very hard to meet people from other teams now. Standardized hiring practices have led to the hiring of many under-qualified contributors (they can answer generic interview questions but can't take on real challenges). They keep laying off great ICs instead of firing incompetent directors & executives. If managed better, we'd do well with more engineers, more salespeople, etc. We have many Hackweeks but the winning projects never see the light of day. It's demoralizing and a waste of time. Many projects are created but cancelled last second due to executive's changing their minds.

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