X Software Developer reviews

- Terrible experience with recruiters, I was almost forgotten about early on in the process until I got curious about what happened and followed up. Bear with this, it's worth it if you're not planning to work with recruiters constantly. - Lots of negative press about the company was scary in between signing offer letter and joining, not guaranteed success in the space. - Lots of people don't get Twitter and see it as just a place for celebrity tweets. Can be demotivating. I also receive some good-natured teasing from Googler/startup friends who consider their impact to be more meaningful (with varying degrees of veracity)

- Myopic, disorganized, and gutless eng/product leadership - Opaque promotion process which was actually worsened through improvement attempts - Miserable open office space is a constant source of distraction - Serious, quantifiable issues with lack of equitable treatment of women and minorities, especially in eng, that the company does not seem to be taking seriously - Most executives refuse to accept responsibility for mistakes and shortcomings, and make a mockery of an ostensibly transparent culture by dodging hard questions at all-hands meetings The root of the problem is that good leadership at Twitter is lacking, both at the executive level and within the engineering and product orgs. There is not a shared clear, consistent, and bold vision for the future of the product and the company, so much as there is focus on making incremental changes to engagement/revenue metrics and spinning numbers to appease the Street (logged-out, anyone?). Most infuriatingly, few C-level and other members of senior management take responsibility for shortcomings, or provide real answers to hard questions raised by employees. I have watched Twitter flap for over a year with little progress, and now, understandably, investors are becoming angry. Costolo served as a scapegoat for Wall Street, but the truth is that he was very capable, and will be difficult to replace.