Great company - Many weak teams - Staff Software Engineer X Employee Review

3.0
19 May 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good senior management. They strive to be honest and transparent. - Good open culture. Many forums to express opinions (especially the internal Q&A tool) and regular "tea-time" allhands meetings - Actually a pretty decent engineering org (despite having several engineers who are mediocre). The company has invested very well in building a good engineering muscle and there are still some very topnotch people doing awesome work. - Good perks! - Great office, outstanding lunch (except Google and Facebook, NO other company's lunch even comes close to to what Twitter offers. )

Cons

- Many strong engineers are leaving. Many teams are just staffed with overwhelming number of mediocre talent. - Some teams have mediocre people from engineers all the way to directors! (Managers and Directors tend to be politically inclined in such teams) - Backend/infrastructure orgs are a mess. Product orgs are an EVEN bigger mess!. The only org that seem to have their act together is the Revenue (ads) engineering org.

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5.0
11 June 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

great community for web engineers. lots of mentorship available sessions to knowledge share really helped with growth

Cons

lots of projects do not make it to production lots of hoops before projects have a chance to be developed or make it hopefully to production

4.0
5 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good salary - High Ownership - Interesting Work - Get to learn more broadly of how things work at scale compared to other global social media companies - Equity Growth Overall I have gotten to take on really interesting work here and am alongside colleagues I respect and appreciate. Equity has appreciated significantly.

Cons

- Constant Layoffs/poor attrition rates - Understaffed - Lack of organization/communication from leadership

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