I was referred to the company. A week later, a recruiter contacted me.

Another week later, I met with several engineers over an on-site catered dinner. A week after that, I had a technical phone interview. A few days later, I was notified of their decision.

Twitch's hiring process seems to involve a number of hidden evaluations, even at the screening stage. The technical interviewer asked a few very broad questions about my current job, then moved on to technical questions. Twitch uses CoderPad and allows the interviewer to pick their language. In total, the structured part of the interview took about 25 minutes. The interviewer was happy to answer questions about Twitch for the remainder of our one-hour time slot.

My most important advice for job seekers considering Twitch is to avoid focusing on presenting yourself as an experienced and well-rounded programmer. Instead, focus on one area of specialization that is directly relevant to Twitch's existing stack and center your interviews around that. At the phone screening stage, if you don't take the initiative to talk in-depth about your past projects, the interviewer will simply assume you have none.

To give a direct quote from one of their hiring staff, "[their] teams are looking for pretty domain-specific knowledge."

Two very basic coding questions