WLB on average is good, though not as good for many since the latest layoffs in Jan. Culture has always been Twitch's strength as a platform and work environment - lots of friendly and collaborative people.
Over 50% of the company was laid off in the past year. Two massive layoffs March 2023 and Jan 2024, with smaller silent axes in between. Company has hunkered down with Amazon pressure, and growth is not available anymore outside maybe a few small pockets. Those looking to grow their career have left or are planning to.
Recently had the privilege to interview a recruiter who worked at 3/5 FAANGs the other day. Wanted to pass along her wisdom. The following was her response to "what companies do you like to see on a resume? " : "I like to see: - Ride share apps (uber/Lyft/didi/grab/etc) - Food delivery apps (DoorD...Read more
Anyone else bullish on HUYA? This is so called Twitch of China? For those millennial Chinese nationals, if you use them to stream or watch a game, how actually popular is it, etc. Thx in advance
Curious how much Streamers for gaming make on a regular basis ...Does anyone from twitch or youtube have this kind of information? How many viewers do you need to make a decent living? What games are the best to stream?
Have a friend that's about to turn 30. Lives with parents and siblings. His work is streaming games on Twitch all day. Has no other job. Been doing it since the pandemic and their stream hasn't taken off or anything. Only has like 10-20 subs. Don't want to ruin friendship but think I should say so...Read more
I am preparing for system design for an infrastructure role and want to get engineers’ opinions on this... I read a facebook blog post [1] from 2015 and it said it was using RTMP for live streaming (just TCP). Twich did it too [2] but converted to HLS (uses HTTP). But in [3] it was suggested face...Read more
Hi Blind, I have an idea for a small side project and am looking for people to work together on it. In short, it's a tool for YouTube/Twitch/Facebook live streamers that lets them know who joins their stream, how active they are on the channel, whether they are subscribed or not, and more. Somethin...Read more
Some SME predicts they'll be about another 100k layoffs this year. Read this: Big tech has been bleeding jobs for a few years now, after overspending and overhiring during the COVID-19 pandemic in anticipation of profits that never materialized. Amazon is cutting hundreds of employees at its Prime...Read more
Few months back I interviewed at Twitch for SSE. Experience. Screening: Asked to solve 1 Easy and 1 Hard LC problem in 20 min. Solved both in 10 minutes as I had seen the Hard problem already on LC. Result: Cleared. Onsite: 3 rounds of LC and 1 System design. All 3 rounds were given Hard LC probl...Read more
Keeping it short, I am kinda confused about naively understanding my career progression as a software engineer with 1 YOE (Masters in CS) (Full Stack Engineer, life depends on Typescript here) Stuff that I have figured out: I like the streaming or mass media communication kind of technologies or un...Read more
NYT spent the past ten weeks interviewing people and gathering evidence and testimony about the day. Text below since the link is paywalled. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/22/world/europe/beeri-massacre.html MASSACRE AT BE’ERI was not a single outburst of violence, over in a terrifyi...Read more