Great pay and benefits, but poor team leadership - Software Engineer Twilio Employee Review

1.0
13 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great pay, great benefits, extra company wide time off twice a year.

Cons

Twilio as a company has been good but my experience working with team leadership has been terrible. This is the least team like team I have ever been on in any situation. Our manager constantly signs up for projects so that we never have enough time for discussion or any kind of collaboration beside getting things done right now. Least understanding an empathetic leader I have had in my career and I don't mean that from a point of view of wanting anything special. I'm talking zero effort put into building relationships, the team, or considering anything beyond what's next on the work list. Everyone ambitious has left the team by finding another company to work for the last several years. I'm next.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
9 Mar 2026
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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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