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San Francisco, CA · founded 2006

X is what became of Twitter after Elon Musk's October 2022 acquisition, and the working experience is dominated by that rupture. Roughly 80% of the pre-acquisition workforce was gone within a year — laid off, resigned after the 'hardcore'/long-hours ultimatum, or cut when trust-and-safety and other teams were dissolved. Employees on review sites describe a place that is 'a shell of what it used to be': talented remaining colleagues, but chaotic direction, frequent priority whiplash, weak and low-trust management, and a hard return-to-office stance. It is a high-intensity, Musk-run environment now folded into xAI; go in expecting velocity, instability, and a culture far from the perk-rich Twitter of the 2010s. Note that the legal HQ moved to Bastrop, Texas in 2024, though a San Francisco office at Market Square remains.

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Set by law, not by X. It applies to every employer in CA.

IVF cycles the state coversCalifornia requires IVF from 1 January 2026, and only from large employers. SB 729 (2024) rewrote Health and Safety Code § 1374.55 so that a large group health care service plan contract 'issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, shall provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and fertility services, including a maximum of three completed oocyte retrievals with unlimited embryo transfers', following ASRM guidelines and using single embryo transfer where medically appropriate. Large group means 100 or more employees. Small group plans need only be OFFERED the coverage rather than provide it, religious employers are excluded, Medi-Cal managed care is exempt, and CalPERS plans are delayed to 1 July 2027. The original 1 July 2025 date was pushed back a budget trailer bill, AB 116 (2025). THE LIMIT THAT DECIDES WHETHER THIS REACHES YOU: a state insurance mandate binds only fully insured plans. A self-funded employer plan is governed federally under ERISA and is preempted, and KFF's 2025 employer survey puts 67% of covered workers — 80% at firms of 200 or more — in a self-funded plan. At most large California employers this law therefore does not apply, and the fertility benefit on the page is the company's own choice. (Senate Bill 729 (2024), which repealed and added Section 1374.55 of the Health and Safety Code and amended Section 10119.6 of the Insurance Code; the operative date was moved from 1 July 2025 to 1 January 2026 by Assembly Bill 116 (2025).)
Adoption leave the law gives12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period on the placement of a child for adoption or foster care, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. There is no federal paid adoption leave. (Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(B) and 2612(c); eligibility at 29 U.S.C. 2611(2) and (4). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code.)

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