Twitch Employee Reviews about "smart people"

Pros

- Brilliant coworkers who have a lot of experience, expertise and passion for their work - Fun and technically challenging projects - Management trusts the engineers to make decisions and prioritize tickets - Excellent work/life balance - Kind, helpful, lighthearted work culture. People just seem happy to be here. - Lots of sweet customer stories about how our work makes a difference - Management cares about professional development and will help you seek out opportunities to learn and improve - Lots of transparency from leadership, who seem like genuinely nice, smart people - More emphasis on diversity, inclusion, and equity than at other tech companies I've worked at

Cons

This is team dependent, but more focus on team-building activities now that we're all remote. It's been harder to get to know my teammates on a personal level since there aren't many small team social activities.

Pros

Smart people, cool office. I've heard some teams can be better than others, but I would not recommend based on my experience here. Possibly a good place to start out of school, but these entry level positions are rare. Internal transfers into Amazon and its subsidiaries if that's your thing

Cons

Amazon culture takeover imminent (toxic compensation structure, very bad work/life balance, cost cutting) Out of touch executives, many of which have never used the platform or touched a video game Unclear future due to rising competition, lack of global presence, and lack of corporate parental support. Amazon does not need Twitch for any reason, really

Pros

fun company and smart people

Cons

no cons fun and innovative

Pros

Perks, work life balance, good product, market leader, smart people

Cons

Has grown a bit, things have slowed down, can be a bit political trying to get products done

Pros

Great office space. Smart people. The bacon in the cafeteria is good. The coffee is god-awful. The quality of the platform can be good.

Cons

The culture is fractured. There is no platform scale. The bacon and office space isn’t enough to cancel out the cancers. There are people who portray their work as at-scale. The cracks are opening. A platform level extinction event will occur and it will be lame-scale based. Symptom? Some put themselves (ego) before the good of the company and the whole-Twitch employee community. Failure to cooperate and be humble (Kings).

Pros

There are some really good smart people at twitch. Some of the best people I've met in my life. Both genuinely caring and good at their jobs. There are fun and interesting problems that need to be solved.

Cons

At some point people just stopped caring about the product, stopped caring about stability. Morale started to suffer, the vision of where to go became unclear. Politics took over, infighting between teams became too much. We are either to integrated with Amazon, or not integrated enough. This half and half state is killing the company slowly. We don't have the management or TPM structure to deal with interacting with Amazon. At the same time we don't have the internal tooling teams or structure to not integrate deep into amazon. We either need to massively beef up the TPM structure and start adopting Amazon's internal tools and systems. If we don't want to do that then we need to massively increase the size of the devtools and systems teams to better support the company.

Pros

At Twitch, we have: Great Team Flexible Employer Scientific Approach Gaming Focus Fun and Welcoming Atmosphere So if you want to work on challenging problems with smart people in one of the fastest growing new entertainment industries, if you like helping to shape the future, work in an environment that accepts and appreciates self starters, and be part of something truly different and magical, you should join Twitch!

Cons

As a company still in the transition between startup to a large stable company, you will have to go beyond any job title you have to get initiatives and goals accomplished. It requires flexibility and a willingness to work hard which may not appeal to someone who wants a job fully mapped out duties with completely defined roles that requires little thought.

Pros

+ Work with smart people who care about their product and craft + Employees are empowered to actively experiment and make improvements + Company that knows and actively participates in its community + Opportunity to shape the future of the engineering organization + People are well compensated and continuously taken care of Twitch is one of the few places I've worked where people are day in and day out passionate about what they work on. It's because many, before becoming employees, were viewers, broadcasters and contributors themselves. Twitch is currently growing along with the size of its community. It's a rare opportunity to work at that juncture in defining how Twitch will operate in the coming years. Not a chance you get with many smaller startups or larger more established companies.

Cons

- Feeling a real need for more human resources - In a period of experimentation to figure out what makes sense for the future

Pros

- Great food perks, though these have slowly been dwindling for each passing week - Smart people, there are a handful of bright individuals that help you learn - Strong brand, great loving community - Flexible work schedule

Cons

- Misguided CEO that tries to take on too many rolls (We have no CTO, CPO, or arguably CEO) - Constant reorgs without clear alignment and direction - Inadequate management, while there are a handful of good managers at Twitch, an overwhelming majority are poor (first time managers, usbpar engineers) - Toxic culture, there are adversarial relationships rampant at the company and the product reflects this division - Compensation and vesting schedule is below market - Morale has been slowly taking a dip

Pros

There are some really smart people here.

Cons

Hiring: getting increasingly difficult. There are enough better tech companies out there (better culture, better leadership, better benefits, better pay). Leadership: there is none. Too many incompetent and political people who only care about their own reputation. Decisions force smart people out. Career progress: nonexistent. L4 -> L5, ok. L5 -> L6 can happen. L6 -> L7 - huh? (eng and PM, not sure about rest). CEO: insane. Can't and won't delegate. Passionate about product, but not actually good at it for the scale where things are now. Can't align people. HR: useless. Don't even know where to start with them... Care only if you have something that could damage company publicly. Twitch is all about gaming. Especially the game of politics.