Just saw on LinkedIn that Ethan and Amir are both out at developer experience. How is morale? Let me bask in the glow, vicariously.
relax baynhams
Hey buddy
how’s life on the other side? i’ve been here too long buddy
Morale went up with Amir’s departure, not down. Things have been on the up and up as an org.
Not difficult to Google who these guys are, but out of curiosity, what did they do that warranted a shakeup?
Killed a lot of products in favor of extensions, which at the time I left was not performing. Just kept wiping out months or years of work to throw more people in the woodchipper of a failed product. Ethan was straight up anti twitch culture, like he'd refuse to use slack. Amir was just horrible at communicating, would get visibly pissed when asked to explain himself. Would call engineers out for discussing frustrations with each other "behind his back", and then refuse to talk about those frustrations in public settings. Then he'd get mad when the contents of his one on one chats would get shared with other people who had the same frustrations/questions (mainly because he'd tell different people different things and get caught immediately). Ethan is I think a standard issue Amazon exec who was put in charge of about half of twitch and probably shouldn't have been. Amir is the worst manager I've ever seen.
@aaaabaa I liked Ethan. My impression was that he had a tight ship and delivered things on time. I never worked with him directly. What was he like?
Too little too late for the ones who actually cared. Those of us still here are checked out. Everyone I know well enough to speak honestly with is actively interviewing. They absolutely cratered morale long before any of this became apparent outside of the org.
Are they at least moving away from extensions finally?