Twitch Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

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

Very good work life balance.

Cons

Twitch leadership is extremely political, especially in the product organization. We have no product vision other than to iterate on the current product. We haven’t shipped anything ambitious in the last two years since our CPO arrived. Also, our CPO hasn’t added any product talent to the company. We just do reorg after reorg and reset everything that people are working on, but it never goes anywhere.

Pros

+ good food + stable amazon backed business + fun sector + great for work life balance, college grads without established experience, rest and vest scenarios +reasonable and stable pay for market

Cons

- product development lacks innovation, velocity or growth - inexperienced middle to upwards management including csuite - DEI issues in news are reflected in work environment with slow change and lack of formal company process around how to to address them - not a great place for high performers, industry leaders and people who want to get things done. There is a culture of subtle pushback for high performers mostly led by inexperienced top to middle level management.

Pros

- There's still great people on some teams, but you have to find them and team experience varies a lot (true for most companies) - Comp is ok. Work/life balance is great - Office is incredible - Twitch has committed and passionate users, which can make you feel good about launching features for them

Cons

- Not much alignment on any common goals and it's hard to work with other teams. Teams re-implement features that already exist just so they can do it themselves - Management is mainly a mix of career Amazon people and hopelessly inexperienced new hires trying to stay afloat - Zero high level engineering direction. Internal dev tooling is terrible compared to similar sized companies - Zero diversity. 3 women on a team of 60

Pros

- Some of the best people to work with and a joy to come to work everyday - Managers are supportive and actively encouraging growth opportunities - Design work is engaging and results-oriented, depending on team - Lively and engaging company culture if you're a netizen and like gaming - Amazing work-life balance - Significant education and personal wellness budget - Transition to all-remote during COVID has significantly improved the remote worker experience

Cons

- Internal teams don't always align goals which can lead to friction - Not an environment that promotes experimentation - Feature launches can drag on for months or even years - After level 6, there are few opportunities for continued leveling - Salaries are low in Europe - Lack of diversity in some teams

Pros

Great perks and people. Wonderful building. Amazing and friendly workplace team that makes staff's lives easier. Best food I've ever had at any tech company. If you can find a good group of friends who support you, you'll enjoy your time.

Cons

Demanding work, to get through it you need to have healthy boundaries and look out for your own work life balance.

Pros

The company provides overall good work-life balance and the work environment is pretty friendly.

Cons

Salaries are not competitive compared to other companies, specially outside of the US. Twitch is an extremely US centered company, so other regions have a hard time being seen within the American leadership. The career path is often confusing and leadership doesn't usually bet on their own employees for new positions.

Pros

Great work-life balance, comp. structure, time off policy and support for working from home. The leadership does a good job in putting themselves in employee’s shoes especially during these tough times and drafting policies that are more human centric

Cons

Pains of a hyper growth company, functional technical ambiguities, can push for more individual centric career development plans

Pros

Twitch is a known player in the industry- working here is like a little badge you get to flaunt. There are great perks, that's for sure. Unlimited PTO (depending on your manager), catered meals, snacks, gaming rooms, monthly massage slots, gym gets reimbursed, flexible work hours, holiday break, etc. The company seems to endorse work life balance at first glance. There are a lot of passionate, smart, and hardworking people at the IC level, reminds you what you're capable of doing every once in awhile- wish those people would get recognition more.

Cons

Leadership is a mess. Many are not in alignment with each other, and their lack of shared vision (which is a company value) trickles down and affects the people actually carrying out daily work. Leaders and those in managerial or positions of power are quick to blame their teams or other teams. Or they don't own up to their lack of management and leadership skills. Goals don't seem to match up between teams, or even within teams, which makes it confusing to get work done. People with lots of experience but no people or team building skills get promoted into management. Poor communication almost everywhere, makes for a really difficult and frustrating work environment. Almost makes me not have fun with gaming anymore because the work environment turns me off. Also, heard employees get away with unprofessional behavior/misconduct. HR and senior management should pay attention to those issues as well- not just productivity and minutes watched or whatever the next KPI is. I don't think the value and image of working at Twitch is worth dealing with the workplace.