Caring people, terrible operations - Sales Twilio Employee Review

4.0
Sep 19, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Very strong, caring leaders who truly value feedback and improvement Product mix with huge potential Working with top tier talent Brand recognition Working towards profitability and sustainability

Cons

Terrible at change management, designing processes for anything or operating at scale. Poor at improving morale, rallying around a common goal, or inspiring people to do their best. Pockets of toxic micro managers and hands off checked out teams that are burned out on the operating model. Terrible at execution of any sales related motion. CEO continually doubts if sales is necessary for product success despite massive growth from direct sales efforts. Wild swings in strategy that led to mass layoffs.

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Pros

The culture and team and compensation is great

Cons

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2.0
Mar 9, 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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