Lackluster Management - Anonymous employee Twilio Employee Review

2.0
Sep 25, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

None that I can think of - would not recommend Twilio.

Cons

The management lacks public company experience and is not able to scale the company as needed to ensure further growth. Executives and management do not take ownership of anything which leads to a very reactionary response versus being proactive and being set up to succeed.

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Twilio Response
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Thank you for your review. As we grow, we continue to add talent with strong experience scaling an organization and learning from the deep expertise on our Board as well. For any issues you are specifically seeing that need to be addressed, I encourage you to talk to your manager, your HRBP or can ask during our bi-weekly All Hands meetings.

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