Pros: Benefits, while they still last, like massages and snacks, are pretty good. Some good people are still around. Compensation being tied to Amazon stock. Kudos to recruiting/HR for posting 5-star reviews on a regular basis to keep the Glassdoor rating afloat.

Cons: Twitch used to be a great company to work at. Too bad the CEO and the executive team have turned a great company into a dumpster fire. There is no long-term vision for Twitch. The executive team just cares about hitting their numbers, on this meaningless metric called "minutes watched" that doesn't actually mean anything, can be easily gamed, and doesn't drive value. They're so desperate to hit their goals that they've resorted to shady accounting of minutes. Every single month, half of the company gets sucked into these MBRs and WBRs. While they are good concepts, the goal for these at Twitch isn't to actually report what happened, but to write a narrative that changes every single month to pretend we are actually doing great, while in reality, most things are terrible. This way, Amazon can be confused while the execs inch their way another month closer to their next vest. Zero product vision. Micro-managing CEO. Zero long-term thinking or strategy. PMs can't establish their own vision for products; instead, they become mere puppets for the CEO, who is far too deep into the weeds. Wish he would give the PMs the freedom to decide the color of a button and instead focus on actual important things. Incompetent executive team (70% should be fired given the performance of their orgs). Ineffective communication due to the changing requests every week/month. Good people leaving left and right. How this company is still being run this way for this long is beyond me, but I expect significant changes soon.

Pros: The engineering at the company is very competent.

Cons: The company is losing all of its long-term employees, losing a lot of very important knowledge in the process. It continues to enshitify internally and externally, making it depressing to work at. Getting any kind of feedback is excruciatingly slow, be it personal feedback or build status feedback.

Pros: There are some really good, smart people at Twitch. Some of the best people I've met in my life. Both genuinely caring and good at their jobs. There are fun and interesting problems that need to be solved.

Cons: At some point, people just stopped caring about the product and stopped caring about stability. Morale started to suffer, and the vision of where to go became unclear. Politics took over, and infighting between teams became too much. We are either too integrated with Amazon, or not integrated enough. This half-and-half state is killing the company slowly. We don't have the management or TPM structure to deal with interacting with Amazon. At the same time, we don't have the internal tooling teams or structure to avoid integrating deeply into Amazon. We either need to massively beef up the TPM structure and start adopting Amazon's internal tools and systems. If we don't want to do that, then we need to massively increase the size of the devtools and systems teams to better support the company.