[jamesroseman]

Twitter employee here.

Admittedly I work in a remote office and not in HQ, but I've noticed NO day-to-day changes. The work, the management, the atmosphere have all been remarkably consistent despite wild rumors and general craziness.

I can't speak to the financials, but this...

> Additional cuts, along with internal management turmoil, are likely to effect your day to day job there to some degree.

...is false (in my, and every employee I've spoken to about this, opinion).

I'm not saying you shouldn't consider these points, but if you turn down Twitter expressly because you imagine the madhouse inside, I'm here to report no such thing.

[harryh]

You are a frog in a slowly boiling pot of water.

I see that you are a very young employee in a remote office. As such you are more likely than average to be cut in future layoffs. Depending on your financial situation you should possibly be looking for a new job already. You should definitely start looking for a new job when you hit your year cliff next March. It would be a significant career mistake not to.

[aswanson]

Great objective perspective and advice.

[empath75]

It takes a few years, but once you're no longer a growth company and the lay offs start up, the company because a less interesting, more stressful place to work. And the best people stop wanting to work there. (See Yahoo, Aol, etc). What's going to happen now is twitter is going to try and trim down their own projects to siphon as much profit as they can from them, and then try to grow by acquisition instead of innovation...

[zump]

So what? This is happened to every successful startup in existence. A company can't be a startup forever. What it needs to find is a niche which can continue churning out successful products even when the majority of employees are concentrated in the range of 35-50. This is what Microsoft, Intel and Qualcomm do and they're still largely profitable companies.

[vkou]

Having seen remote offices get laid off, most people working in them have the same impression, right up until a week before they are closed.

[mathattack]

It is very rare for a company to have two big rounds of layoffs and not get addicted.