Is X a good company to work for?

X has an overall rating of 3.0 out of 5, based on over 2,808 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 33% of employees would recommend working at X to a friend and 29% 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 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at X?

33% 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 (238) , 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 (27) , 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 295 reviews)); "The people are great and the work you do makes an impact" ((in 286 reviews)); "The benefits are great and provide additional support for parents and trans/non" ((in 161 reviews)); "Work Life Balance was GREAT!" ((in 136 reviews)); "Very well pay and good location" ((in 69 reviews))

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

"Poor leadership and lack of direction." ((in 93 reviews)); "Poor management and overworked." ((in 88 reviews)); "Managers are inexperienced and given lots of power." ((in 43 reviews)); "Long hours and challenges with old policies vs new ones" ((in 25 reviews)); "Easy Layoff, a, a, a, a" ((in 24 reviews))

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What X locations have received the highest employee ratings?

Chicago , San Jose , Seattle , Atlanta , San Francisco , Los Angeles , New York

X reviews

3.0

33% would recommend to a friend

(2,262 total reviews)

Linda Yaccarino

35% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

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3.4

Compensation and benefits

3.0

Career opportunities

2.8

Diversity & inclusion

2.8

Work/Life balance

2.7

Culture & values

2.4

Senior management

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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2K reviews

1.0

Apr 12, 2013

A flurry of birds lost atop a San Francisco building

Anonymous employee

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Pros

Food is rather good The new space is appealing and very well decorated

Cons

Most of the interactions I had were with people that refused to give into the scalability idea. They consider newer employees with experience from other successful companies a threat and will not consider any recommendations. Company still has no idea how to monetize, but still continues to spend money left and right on hiring/acquiring talent with no long term plans. The overall vibe of the company is super SF hipster (which itself isn't a con) but when you couple that with a bunch of people that don't really know what they're doing, it spells disaster

5.0

Apr 3, 2013

The awesome location, smart people, and exciting work environment make Twitter the best job I have ever had.

Operations engineer

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Pros

The perks are great (free beer on tap, free meals and snacks), the people are wonderful, and the work is exciting as heck. I'm always happy to go into work, and happy to be at work. I'm surrounded by incredibly intelligent people, working on exciting technologies, solving interesting scaling problems that nobody else has dealt with, and learning new things every day.

Cons

HQ is located in a very sketchy neighborhood (Civic Center / Tenderloin), and I've often walked past heroin addicts shooting up on the sidewalk. There's plenty of homeless and desperately poor folks, but I'm not harassed by them. It's a little depressing, but Twitter makes a strong effort to encourage its employees to help out the locals in some small way. There is a certain amount of growing pains at Twitter, and some of us newer folks often ask ourselves "why did this get implemented this way", but that's common at any startup. Some of us from the big companies (Google, Yahoo, Facebook) know there's better ways to accomplish the same task, but that's why they hired us. There is also a certain amount of groupthink at Twitter, but I don't think that's any different from any large corporation.

5.0

Feb 1, 2013

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Lead recruiter

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Pros

Small teams, ability to make lots of impact, ability to create new processes and have high interaction with Sr. Managers and Directors. Amazing office and it is great working downtown. Easy access to Muni, Bart, CalTrian, walking distance to Polk and Haye Valley restaurants and bars for after work. Twitter provides great free food for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Cons

You have to wear multiple hats and pivot quickly. Some process/programs are unestablished so some things take a little work to get up and running.

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