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Upper management is clueless. Layoffs were ill conceived and poorly executed. I don't think anybody knows why they happened. Now that the layoffs are over, the executives are all out recruiting, which makes no sense to anyone. Layoffs were pushed up due to the timing of the Square IPO. That's incredibly disrespectful to the people let go. The resulting organization structure is designed to slow down Twitter even more. Twitter has always moved far too slowly for the little social network that couldn't. Now it's about to stop doing anything.

- Myopic, disorganized, and gutless eng/product leadership - Opaque promotion process which was actually worsened through improvement attempts - Miserable open office space is a constant source of distraction - Serious, quantifiable issues with lack of equitable treatment of women and minorities, especially in eng, that the company does not seem to be taking seriously - Most executives refuse to accept responsibility for mistakes and shortcomings, and make a mockery of an ostensibly transparent culture by dodging hard questions at all-hands meetings The root of the problem is that good leadership at Twitter is lacking, both at the executive level and within the engineering and product orgs. There is not a shared clear, consistent, and bold vision for the future of the product and the company, so much as there is focus on making incremental changes to engagement/revenue metrics and spinning numbers to appease the Street (logged-out, anyone?). Most infuriatingly, few C-level and other members of senior management take responsibility for shortcomings, or provide real answers to hard questions raised by employees. I have watched Twitter flap for over a year with little progress, and now, understandably, investors are becoming angry. Costolo served as a scapegoat for Wall Street, but the truth is that he was very capable, and will be difficult to replace.