I've been on Hacker News much longer than I've worked at Twilio so set aside my bias for the moment and hear this from a fellow community member: Twilio is an awesome place to work. Our engineers work on interesting problems building really useful products and services (you should see what we have in store for the future). We genuinely care about helping our customers be more awesome.
Personally I've never worked at a place where my input has been so highly valued and I'm not particularly high on the totem pole (and I work remotely to boot). It doesn't matter. Everyone has something to contribute and everyone's contributions are equally valued. I've learned an immeasurable amount in just a few months from the ridiculously smart people I get to work with. This is the smartest, most committed crew of people I've had the pleasure of working with. They're fun people too.
Maybe working for someone else isn't your thing, but if your circumstances require you to do so, there are few better places to work.
If anyone has any questions about what it's like working at Twilio, feel free to contact me directly at jsheehan@twilio.com or ask your questions here and I'll answer what I can.
I've been on HN much longer than I've used Twilio, so trust me on this one: the product they make is jawdroppingly awesome, transformative, and will upend industries. It is on the same rough scale as email: this (or something very close to this) is going to save tens of millions of people their precious time, and make a lot of companies stupefying amounts of money. It brings the Internet to people who can't use the Internet, it brings computers to people who can't use computers, it eliminates whole classes of largely unproductive jobs. If you're a bit burnt out on CRUD apps and want to do something with impact, this is a great job.
P.S. After you get there, if you can zealously advocate for first-class Japanese support, you will be my best friend for life.
John, what is Twilio's position on remote working? The senior engineer's job looks interesting but I can't relocate right away (baby on the way, misses wants to give labour in the home country). I'd be willing to fly in for a couple of days each month.
My position as an Evangelist requires me to travel a lot, and I happen to live in a nice startup town (Boulder) so it's the right situation for working remotely. There's another Evangelist located in NYC. Outside of that, our core engineering team is all in San Fran, so those positions require being located there.
I live in Boulder as well and would love to be able to check out the intern position, if that's feasible for working remotely. I wouldn't mind traveling to the HQ every couple of weeks on my dime even.
Personally I've never worked at a place where my input has been so highly valued and I'm not particularly high on the totem pole (and I work remotely to boot). It doesn't matter. Everyone has something to contribute and everyone's contributions are equally valued. I've learned an immeasurable amount in just a few months from the ridiculously smart people I get to work with. This is the smartest, most committed crew of people I've had the pleasure of working with. They're fun people too.
Maybe working for someone else isn't your thing, but if your circumstances require you to do so, there are few better places to work.
If anyone has any questions about what it's like working at Twilio, feel free to contact me directly at jsheehan@twilio.com or ask your questions here and I'll answer what I can.