Twitter Reviews

Pros

Incredible learning resources, inspirational leadership, strong values & fantastic culture, amazing work spaces, solid work life balance. A place where there is always something to learn and talk about. Firm commitment to diversity and equal pay for genders. I've been here a few months, and am incredibly impressed with the direction of the company, how it invests in it's people, and the resources and opportunity at Twitter. It really is a fantastic place to work.

Advice to Management

Keep up the great job investing in your people! Encourage collaboration.

Pros

Work with smart, committed & passionate colleagues who will become like family!

Advice to Management

NA

Pros

Culture, Benefits, Challenging work, perks, etc. There are always exciting things to work on unlike Facebook and Google which are too big and too specialized.

Advice to Management

Keep focusing on culture and people.

Pros

The company CULTURE breeds innovation and self expression. I have always been encouraged to use the platform as myself and not hold back. That says a lot about a company and leadership. Communicate Fearlessly to Build Trust is a core value we live by.

They are always offering TRAINING in various areas from job skills to life skills, giving us the opportunity to grow beyond the core responsibilities of our role. I've been promoted a number of times over my 5 years and every time I felt fully prepared to accomplish my new goals and start finding new ones.

WORK/LIFE BALANCE is a true focus here. My teammates and I don't do well at our jobs because we put in the most hours. We do well because when we are at work love what we do, but we know we can leave at the end of the day and focus on the other parts of our lives that refresh us.

Advice to Management

Keep marketing the "Why Twitter" and continue the exponential pace of work on safety on the platform. After 5 years I have seen it come a long way in the last year, but keep the pedal to the metal on this project.

Pros

Smart people, delicious and free food, awesome product, and a fun atmosphere.

Advice to Management

Move quicker on new products and innovations to the platform. Don’t just copy what the other platforms are doing. Stay unique to twitter and the platform will grow.

Pros

Work/life balance, mission-driven company, strong/transparent leadership, passionate/collaborative coworkers

Advice to Management

Get more resources to ship product improvements faster

Pros

Overall the company is good

Pros

Culture - smart, driven, yet team-oriented people (this is a rare combination). I genuinely love who I work with (and our motto of #LoveWhereYouWork is honored throughout the company)
Mission - people at Twitter love the product and what it is doing in the world

Advice to Management

If you can make the product easier so my Mom can use it, we will bring in a lot of new users (and given another person to participate in our conversations that is always about what is happening on Twitter! )

Pros

The cafeteria is fantastic. Delicious, plenty of variety, lots of healthy options. The kitchenettes throughout the building are great, too: thoughtful setup, good snack variety, plenty of drinks, and excellently maintained.

The office space is very well designed. Good lighting, spacious layout, and lots of little nooks for when you want to get away from your desk. Ergonomic furniture, including standing desk setups, is easily available. Location is very commute-friendly.

Corporate IT is shockingly good. On your first day you get a laptop that's perfectly set up. Network coverage is excellent everywhere. Video conferencing works reliably. Problems are rare and resolved quickly by friendly, competent support staff.

Colleagues are generally smart, friendly, and pleasant to work with. They almost all love and care about the product they work on.

Compensation is competitive, with a twice-yearly raise cycle, and benefits are solid.

It's great to work at a company with such a prominent, meaningful product. If you can get something done at Twitter (which is by no means guaranteed) you can have enormous impact.

Advice to Management

Jack, get a strong COO, one who will effectively run the company while you stick with the ceremonial role. Let them rein in the bad actors and create a stable set of priorities so that long-term investments (including cleaning up historical mistakes) can be made. Give cross-functional teams real problems to solve, insist that they ship early and often, and then get out of their way. Focus teams on pleasing users, not executives. Make OKRs less a pointless bureaucratic ritual and more the main tool of keeping teams on track, so that team independence is matched with low-overhead accountability.

Pros

Great work/life benefits
Awesome benefits
Transparent leadership
Amazing internal opportunities
Company full of intelligent, passionate people
Work from home
Fun, strong culture