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Most of the interactions I had were with people that refused to give into the scalability idea. They consider newer employees with experience from other successful companies a threat and will not consider any recommendations. Company still has no idea how to monetize, but still continues to spend money left and right on hiring/acquiring talent with no long term plans. The overall vibe of the company is super SF hipster (which itself isn't a con) but when you couple that with a bunch of people that don't really know what they're doing, it spells disaster

HQ is located in a very sketchy neighborhood (Civic Center / Tenderloin), and I've often walked past heroin addicts shooting up on the sidewalk. There's plenty of homeless and desperately poor folks, but I'm not harassed by them. It's a little depressing, but Twitter makes a strong effort to encourage its employees to help out the locals in some small way. There is a certain amount of growing pains at Twitter, and some of us newer folks often ask ourselves "why did this get implemented this way", but that's common at any startup. Some of us from the big companies (Google, Yahoo, Facebook) know there's better ways to accomplish the same task, but that's why they hired us. There is also a certain amount of groupthink at Twitter, but I don't think that's any different from any large corporation.