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3.0

33% would recommend to a friend

(2,262 total reviews)
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35% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

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 Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Nov 2, 2015

Chaotic Company that claims to be "transparent"

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, nice work space, decent pay, fun people, and yummy food!

Cons

This place is a joke. They hired me only to let me go shortly after in their recent reorg. Shows the lack of planning and forecasting which is consistent throughout Twitter. Jack's leadership style is to do what he is told by the board/investors - he doesn't really take a stance but constantly claims he is transparent. Twitter is a very chaotic organization - lots of teams doing a lot of the same things with 0 communication between teams, nothing is streamlined, no clear processes, no clear understanding on what to build your strategy around as upper management seems unclear themselves and to be frank too worried about their own jobs to truly coach their team which made it hard to know what it is I was supposed to be focusing on. The day of the reorg email access to those being canned was cut off prior to people being notified that their jobs were being eliminated. We definitely were not treated in the "respectful manner" as Jack promised. HR was a nightmare to deal with, nobody had the answers and we were tossed around which is another typical Twitter trait. Nobody wants to own anything. You are constantly thrown around from person to person when you have a question and people sometimes just don't respond to you at all for months as there is nobody holding anybody accountable. No sense of urgency. People roll in at 9-10am every day and leave by 5pm and hardly anyone works on Friday. And they wonder why the company isn't doing well.

1.0
Mar 11, 2015

Sadly, it became "just a job"

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great food. Most employees are smart. Great place to spend your days at if you are 20-something.

Cons

Unstable and unhealthy workplace. Performance review, promotion and hiring are never transparent. If you don't come from Google, Facebook or Apple, you are a second-class citizen here. Ex-Googlers hiring their buddies from Google, and promoting each other. Sudden purges and a bunch of workers just disappear. Unless you are an engineer or product manager, the salary is below the market. Culture is very unfriendly to women and parents. No wonder they are having a hard time attracting and retaining women. I came in with a pride for what I do; now it's been degraded to "just a job."

2.0
Nov 18, 2014

Just trying to vest at this point

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

-Free food is amazing -Awesome opportunities like Hillary Clinton stopping by -Working on a product that is exciting -Nice facilities -Great Holiday parties and social gatherings -Lots of amazing people -Looks great on your resume (I hope)

Cons

There are far too many reorgs. Lots of XGooglers and XSalesforce who hire each other and give each other higher salaries/titles than those who have Twitter experience. I seen far too many managers who have never managed a team and should never be managing a team. Do you want a 26 yo who got the managing gig by drinking beer with their boss to be in charge of your career and growth? Promotion process is based on politics and favoritism doesn't matter how many fires you put out at 3am while your coworker is on PTO, if they're friends with the boss, you're never getting noticed. Lots of managers just refer friends to each other's team. The unlimited PTO policy really varies from mgr to mgr but basically you're probably going to feel too guilty to ever take PTO anyway. Not many women in higher/leadership positions.

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