Folks at Twitter, what is the deal with Dantley Davis ?

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vMojoJojo

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vMojoJojo
Aug 17, 2021 14 Comments

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/technology/twitter-culture-change-conflict.html

I have always heard great things about twitter work culture. Sounds like it's not a good thing to be polite to your coworkers at Twitter anymore ? Or is it just much needed change to get the employees to move fast and make more money ?

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  • Twitter / Mgmt
    treeleaf1

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    treeleaf1
    Prior thread: “Yikes 👀 (Twitter)"
    https://us.teamblind.com/s/TyBH6tJQ
    Aug 17, 2021 11
    • Twitter
      pepopepo

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      pepopepo
      I like the twitter product and felt it had a lot of room to grow. It’s more fun working on something you like using.
      Aug 18, 2021
    • Twitter has so much potential. I am ex-Facebook too and came for that potential as well as WLB. Now I’m not so sure 😔

      The good:
      - I am not in ML but impressed with the improvements made there.
      -Also impressed with smaller product improvements that have been released the past 2 years under CDO. I will give him that.
      -Twitter has given us a lot of resources and rest days especially once the pandemic struck.

      The bad:
      -I found the WLB I signed up for coming from FB but was also met with stifling politics and walls of bureaucracy here.

      -Talent is not appreciated as much as managing up and being promoted for doing nothing.

      -There is a “we always do it this way” attitude with cliques of old timers who have no idea how to lead or build. My guess is DD tried to change this but executed in a heavy handed way instead of investing in his people.

      -The Design team has had an unbelievable attrition rate with weekly goodbye emails for almost a year. Very telling of that org.

      -The leadership style mentioned in this article only scratches the surface of more problematic issues by DD and other leads. There exists a front of a woke culture. Look closer and you note a lot of bullying, sexism and unnecessary game of thrones like politics.
      Aug 18, 2021
  • Twitter
    bootyevery

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    bootyevery
    This has nothing to do with my org, he isn’t the whole company. But yeah the culture under people like DD and head of tech recruiting is bad
    Aug 17, 2021 0
  • New
    UaTx30

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    UaTx30
    Interesting. I had a design/research offer pulled due to “internal changes”. I wonder if its related lol
    Aug 18, 2021 0