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 276 reviews)); "The benefits are great and provide additional support for parents and trans/non" ((in 164 reviews)); "Work Life Balance was GREAT!" ((in 133 reviews)); "Very well pay and good location" ((in 62 reviews))

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

"Poor leadership and lack of direction." ((in 92 reviews)); "Poor management and overworked." ((in 91 reviews)); "Managers are inexperienced and given lots of power." ((in 41 reviews)); "There can be long hours and not every team acknowledges this" ((in 25 reviews)); "Cuts and layoffs" ((in 22 reviews))

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X reviews

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

Compensation and benefits

3.0

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2.8

Diversity & inclusion

2.8

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2.7

Culture & values

2.4

Senior management

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5.0

Sep 19, 2015

Smart people, potential for impact, very open communication,

Software engineer

Recommend

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Pros

- Very smart and friendly engineers who are always available to help/teach. Not abnormal to find someone of interest in the company and just HipChat / schedule a chat with them. - Lots of potential for impact as Twitter recognizes need for important changes to respond to slowdown in user growth. The lack of guanranteed success of the company highlights importance of the work you do, but this can obviously be a con as well (see cons) - Open communication is reflected even in higher management: CEO and staff meeting notes are public to the company, etc. On personal level, communication about which projects you want, career goals, etc. is encouraged and taken into consideration, which is great (though obv. dependent on engineering manager as well) - Competitive compensation and good perks

Cons

- Terrible experience with recruiters, I was almost forgotten about early on in the process until I got curious about what happened and followed up. Bear with this, it's worth it if you're not planning to work with recruiters constantly. - Lots of negative press about the company was scary in between signing offer letter and joining, not guaranteed success in the space. - Lots of people don't get Twitter and see it as just a place for celebrity tweets. Can be demotivating. I also receive some good-natured teasing from Googler/startup friends who consider their impact to be more meaningful (with varying degrees of veracity)

X Response

10y

Thank you for your review – we really appreciate it. We routinely share our employee comments via Glassdoor with our leadership team so they have better insights into concerns and areas for improvement.

5.0

Aug 28, 2015

Like no place I've ever worked for

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

I could go on for a while about why Twitter is a great to work, I feel as though all of my friends are sick of hearing me talk about it. The pay is great, the perks are great, the tech and people are great and the food is amazing. :-) It's just great.

Cons

Large company. Offices are usually in the city so if you live outside the city get ready for the commute.

X Response

10y

So glad you're having such a great experience!

3.0

Aug 21, 2015

Great money, terrible management

Staff software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

* Amazing stock grants (at least pre-IPO). * Great pay. * Great internal training. * Great food that's free and plentiful. * Decent engineering practices. * World-wide brand recognition. * Great location.

Cons

* Horrible management and management practices. * The engineering management pushed out many of the best engineers. * Constant turnover among management as well. * It's a shark tank. * It's so painful to code on their stack compared to Google App Engine or AWS.

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