I hope Twilio (and other companies) are reading.
One bad experience can turn many engineers away from your recruiting pipeline.
Do you really take random comments on the internet into consideration when you're looking for your next gig? If you do, in my experience, every company is off the table.
What else am I supposed to take into consideration? The companies marketing material? Maybe the signal in those comments is a bit biased, but it seems far less biased than the alternatives.
At this point, unless I talk to someone I trust within a company, I try to reserve all judgement. In fact, I do that with everything nowadays. The internet and modern media skews so negative, according to them nobody is happy anywhere and everything sucks. That hasn't been my experience.
I was given only a single coding interview my whole onsite, and it was to build a JavaScript SPA, including routing/linking, without the use of any framework, just vanilla JS.
This is of course both completely ludicrous, and incredibly disrespectful. Thanks for pointing this out so that we know to add that company (Twilio) to our list of companies to pass on, the next time they come our way.