Has anyone here moved between Twitch and Amazon? What are your thoughts? I’m considering moving from Amazon (AWS) to Twitch. While AWS is definitely a cool org, I really like product at Twitch. Currently SDE 1.
Read the Glassdoor reviews before moving to Twitch. I know Glassdoor isn’t exactly the most reliable source, but there is a consistent trend of engineers saying bad things about Twitch, something that other desirable companies to work for do not have.
This is true, trends on glassdoor are almost always accurate. Kind of disappointing. Are you familiar with the amazon side of this? Things like Twitch Prime and such?
Go and join twitch.. you will get better perks and culture with same salary range..
The bad glassdoor reviews are bad because a bunch of oldies are upset that twitch is no longer a 300 person startup. I wouldn't take them too seriously. Things are certainly different than they were 3 years ago. But different isn't automatically bad. If you love gaming, come to twitch.
are you guys still only doing c++ stuff?
No? I'm not sure that was ever the case. Video has some of that for transcoding. We have lots of go some Ruby some c # some python
It really depends on the team, but as product verticals get more integrated and process becomes more defined you'll definitely end up interacting with less competent and poorly managed elements of the company. For the most part, the glassdoor rating rather accurately captures the general dissatisfaction and unease that people feel about execs and product direction. Some teams have the backbone to be data- and value-driven and execute effectively, while others are left to fester with awful product direction and lack of organization and vision. If you join a team that can withstand your execs blowing up your top level business metrics or the roadmap your team spent weeks planning and writing up, you'll be fine. They're also doing some really cool stuff, and in general Twitch is awesome since its business model is less extractive than, say, uber and really does enable some cool communities to thrive. Believing in the vision while getting Amazon stock and playing video games is a viable mental model as well.
Thanks for the insight. I’m currently leaning towards joining an Amazon team that works on twitch (something like Twitch Prime).
Twitch prime is pretty good and I would say run very well unlike other prts of twitch
It really depends which Twitch Office. Twitch OC is fantastic, as people actually get stuff done
What is twitch oc? I know hq on bush and office on Sansone
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You like product at Twitch? Twitch product direction is a shitshow atm, don't do it.
Go on...
Also interested in an elaboration if you can.