Amazing and effective engineering culture - Software Engineer Twilio Employee Review

5.0
Jan 19, 2016
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

* Management really values engineers’ time and supports them when they want to pay down technical debt or focus on scalability. * Small teams structure like at Amazon emphasizes ownership and teaches you many skills hands-on— writing the code, deploying, and ops management. (There is on-call for some software engineers, which may be a con for you). * Very seriously takes some of the principles of agile / modern software development, such as committing to and checking-in on betterments from retrospectives, and using “we” phrasing when referring to outages and incidents. "Be Humble" is a corporate value and it is lived out pretty well.

Cons

* Interviews take up a lot of time, 1-2 hrs a day really add up. * Not so good at distributing tasks such that senior engineers aren’t overloaded.

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5.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

The culture and team and compensation is great

Cons

Working remote can start to feel really remote sometimes

2.0
Mar 9, 2026
Recommend
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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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