Is X a good company to work for?

X has an overall rating of 3.0 out of 5, based on over 2,811 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 36% of employees would recommend working at X to a friend and 32% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about X have been left by employees working as Software Engineer(Internship) , Intern and Machine Learning Engineer .

Does X pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, X employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.4 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at X. This rating has improved by 4% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at X?

36% of X employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated X 2.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.7 for culture and values and 3.0 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at X?

Software Engineer (238) , Senior Software Engineer (88) , Account Manager (71) , Client Partner (41) , Software Engineer II (37) , Staff Software Engineer (36) , Data Scientist (31) , Director (29) , Product Manager (27) , Intern (26) , Client Account Manager (25) , Manager (25) , Program Manager (22) , Software Engineer(Internship) (22) , Engineering Manager (20)

What are the pros of working at X according to real employee reviews?

"Great culture and business porpuse" ((in 304 reviews)); "The people are great and the work you do makes an impact" ((in 275 reviews)); "The benefits are great and provide additional support for parents and trans/non" ((in 175 reviews)); "Work Life Balance was GREAT!" ((in 145 reviews)); "Very well pay and good location" ((in 65 reviews))

What are the cons of working at X according to real employee reviews?

"Poor leadership and lack of direction." ((in 94 reviews)); "Poor management and overworked." ((in 90 reviews)); "Managers are inexperienced and given lots of power." ((in 43 reviews)); "There can be long hours and not every team acknowledges this" ((in 25 reviews)); "layoffs were bad with no communication." ((in 24 reviews))

What are employees saying about X layoffs in 2026?

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What are the top reviewed X locations?

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X reviews

3.0

36% would recommend to a friend

(2,263 total reviews)

Linda Yaccarino

35% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

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X has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,263 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The X employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

2K reviews

5.0

Jul 25, 2013

A place where engineers control their destinies, and you are changing the world.

Staff software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

small teams, engineers own their own services (prod root, testing, alerting, design, end to end), tons of opportunity to work on fundamental infrastructure and relevance problems, but also there is a ton in place to help you do this already. Extremely pro-open source. Flexible work environment, unlimited PTO. Still pre-IPO, but you know, kinda probably will.

Cons

Chaotic: engineering has not been very historically run by strong personalities, which lead to an environment where individual tech teams decided what to build. This lead to a lack of consistency and and "anything goes" engineering mentality. E.g. there are maybe 6 different logging frameworks in production java code, another half dozen different key-value stores, mapreduce jobs are done via pig, scalding, hive, python on hadoop streaming, you name it. So if you're one who is bewildered by many choices, you'll be *very* bewildered at Twitter. It can be a hard place to start your engineering career.

5.0

Jul 25, 2013

If you're comfortable with change, it's an exhilarating ride.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- A product and a brand that has the potential to reach global scale. - A company that puts it's users above all else. - Challenging problems to solve with many passionate and smart people who want to figure them out. - Open communication and transparency when it counts. - Company is supportive of finding the right long term fit, even if it isn't on the team you're currently on. - Lots of excitement! Lots of change and growth - can be jarring if you're not accustom to this kind of environment.

Cons

- While communication is generally open, it can be hard to find the right channels to get information (I still struggle with this). - Internal tools aren't always a priority to help improve productivity (although I've been spoiled by Google's in a prior life). - Some whining and entitlement issues from a vocal (and often anonymous) few. - Unclear growth and development path for managers (but people are working on this). - Constant growing pains. Lots of them, but almost a pro in the sense that we've worked through many of them successfully. (Seen a fail-whale lately?) - Old-timer blues.

5.0

Jul 25, 2013

Immediately open and trusting, Twitter has allowed me to make big designs and solve big problems with little friction.

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Twitter is very open and transparent inside the company, with little friction caused by bureaucratic nonsense. From my first day I've been able to make big changes to the code base and deploy these changes to production. It has been relatively easy to work with coworkers across teams to complete broader projects. I've always felt compensated fairly for the work I do, and I've never felt the need to consistently work long days.

Cons

It's in an interesting state as it has been making its transition from small start up to big company, and many internal processes have not scaled. Twitter is developing corporate infrastructure to preserve it's culture at scale, but it's not quite there yet.

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