X reviews

3.0

36% would recommend to a friend

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

32% 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 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.

5.0
Nov 11, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company to work for. Perks are amazing. Challenging work. Smart people. It's a well oiled machine for a company of its size and has been working to address the *systematic* internal issues (eg developer productivity). Overall it's hard to beat.

Cons

The company has been bleeding culture as the old timers leave and the hiring process is slanted towards what have been described fairly accurately as "worker bees from Google." In general, I saw my newer coworkers were smarter but less fun than the older ones. Recently there has been a lot of turnover at the company in what is basically a systematic sweeping of house as they look for people internally who aren't up to par. This is concerning even for those above this bar, although I can understand that it may make the company stronger long-term. Not enough upward mobility. Promotion/feedback process can be gamed.

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