Incredible People & Great Opportunity - Anonymous employee Twilio Employee Review

5.0
1 July 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I can't say enough about the people that work at Twilio. It's an incredible team of hard working passionate people that embrace their coworkers. And they're a lot of fun: corn hole tournaments in the office, social work environment, dinners on Wednesday nights with fascinating speakers, and fun events of all types for foodies, techies, the outdoorsy, gamers and everything in between. There is also incredibly opportunity because of an incredible platform and relentless innovation. Management is very accessible and an incredible wealth of knowledge (especially Jeff Lawson and Bobby Napiltonia). Great training and on-boarding process (across departments) that welcomes you to the company, trains you with a great skill set, and familiarizes you with the people and product that make up the company.

Cons

You will be working hard and sometimes long hours, but it's well worth it. There are always processes that can be made more efficient (especially inter-departmental processes), but the company is always actively seeking to improve these.

Explore other reviews about Twilio

5.0
5 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The culture and team and compensation is great

Cons

Working remote can start to feel really remote sometimes

2.0
9 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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?

1
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All