This comment breaks the rules at the top. Please don't do that.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22668688.

I'm sorry that you or someone you know ended up not receiving an offer. Twitter is indeed still hiring. While admittedly Twitter does hold a high bar for hiring, we put a lot of effort into making sure that our assessments are done fairly, based on the best we can tell about the candidate's current level of technical and nontechnical skills relevant to the role. Sometimes this may mean teams continue the interview process further with candidates who seem promising but risky. When that does happen, it's not because of a number of applicants metric (this isn't a metric I've heard about internally), it's because we want to give people a fair chance. Admittedly, there is a careful balance to be made between giving people the time to demonstrate how they shine and wasting candidates' time because it's not the right role. There's also cases where someone interviews for one role, doesn't have the right skill set there, is referred to a different role, and then does very well and is hired. I don't think any interview process at any company is perfect, but we are always trying to improve.

I'd also like to add that one of the ways we offer a level playing field for candidates is by strongly supporting remote work (which started long before COVID-19). We have multiple offices both within and outside of the United States, and many people who work from home in jurisdictions where we have the ability to employ people. Unlike the team in the grandparent comment, many Twitter engineering teams are currently particularly looking to hire outside of San Francisco (both to increase our geographic diversity and to reach the best candidates wherever they may be).

So if you're looking for something new, like Twitter, and see a role on https://careers.twitter.com that you honestly feel is a good fit, please apply!