Great Place Unless You Are in Sales - Anonymous employee Twilio Employee Review

2.0
4 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

An avalanche of leads every month. Very little outbound needed. Great companies just show up. Great API's and Developer relations is the gold standard. Good perks, fun place and people.

Cons

The company has no respect for any work done outside of Product or Development. Sales is a necessary evil. 4 or 5 Chief Sales Leaders in less than two years. Current leader is remote and powerless. They let industry experts go.

avatar
Twilio Response
10y
Thank you for your feedback, it is very important to me and the e-team to hear directly from the employees about their concerns. We encourage you to talk directly to your manager, your HRBP or me about any issues.

Explore other reviews about Twilio

5.0
5 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The culture and team and compensation is great

Cons

Working remote can start to feel really remote sometimes

2.0
9 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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?

1
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All