Has so much potential - Anonymous employee Twilio Employee Review

3.0
Mar 9, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Twilio has great products and has really hard working genuine employees. There are efforts towards diversity. Benefits are great

Cons

My experience with managers as always been tough. With growing very large very fast, little has been done to ensure that higher ups are equipped with skills to manage their teams. It's a common occurrence for folks to joke about burn out because it's very real here. In order to be successful, your mental health and work life balance will have to suffer. They will only make changes or give you support when you're either ready to give up or already gone.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Comp is fair, benefits are okay. If you are lucky with a low maintenance book of business you can clock roughly 20 hours a week and hit all your goals. I saw this happen to multiple sellers over my tenure.

Cons

The reason I left was in Jan 2026 they re-orged all of the Segment business unit into Twilio. We went from being traditional Segment SaaS sellers to Twilio Account Managers. You have no prospects only existing clients. You spend your day in Zendesk managing tickets, there are zero actual sales activities. Your quota is comprised of organic revenue growth that would occur whether you existed or not. Upside is limited. - Leadership Churn: I worked here for 16 months and during that time I had 5 managers. They couldn't hang onto anyone. - No review or raise during my 16 months here, despite exceeding my quota. - Promotions: you cannot just crush in your role and get promoted. There needs to be a promotion spot available somewhere in your business unit and then you compete with other sellers for it. Your role will not change, your accounts and clients will not change, only your comp will. So why the limited promotion availability?

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