Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
April 14, 2015
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer
Process
The interview process began with a call from the recruiter, followed by two technical phone screens, and then a standard full-day onsite interview.
The phone screen questions were significantly easy, mostly involving applications of basic algorithms found in an introductory CS class. The onsite questions were not much more difficult. They were all problems you'd be expected to solve if you were working at a name-brand tech company.
Scheduling wasn't ideal at the time, but anyone checking tech news would have understood the reason.
They didn't inform me of the day's schedule, so I didn't realize I was speaking with a hiring manager until the middle of the last interview. After consulting with friends, I learned I wasn't the only one caught off guard by this.
Questions
Pokémon Ice Cave question
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 37 interview experiences for the Twitch Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
27%
Pass Rate
Twitch's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Positive46%
Neutral22%
Negative32%
Candidates reported having good feelings for Twitch's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.
Twitch Work Experiences
1.0
Company going sour
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
July 12, 2017
Pros: Free food and drinks
Gaming room
Good work equipment
Cons: Culture has changed with the growth of the company. Twitch was once a very positive place, which is turning sour. It's a very cliquey culture, and far too many people now default to saying no to everything, with a very negative outlook.
Career growth opportunities are a joke.
Companies small and large are eating Twitch's lunch, such as Discord, YouTube, and Facebook.
Surprisingly, a large amount of people work at Twitch who do not use Twitch. RIP customer focus.
5.0
Starting to Scale
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
September 19, 2018
Pros: Twitch is really coming into its own. Proper management and HR have provided much-needed stability after years of rapid expansion. The website scales well, and the technology has matured within AWS. Smart and talented people join the company each week from places like Facebook and Google. There's a bandwagon called e-sports, and everybody is jumping on it.
Cons: There's a little divide between "old" Twitch and "new" Twitch. New leaders are much more capable at our current size and scale, and that's really upset some of the old leaders. Nothing for anyone coming in the door to worry about, but it's an unfortunate by-product of a growing company.
3.0
It was fun until it wasn't
Software Engineer • Former Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
April 10, 2024
Pros: One of the more inclusive companies that also seemed to care about its employees' learning and working styles, until it didn't. Nice benefits, ERGs, mostly cool coworkers.
Cons: Poor management, super disorganized, and slow processes. Code reviews and Slack replies took forever, and everyone was burnt out. There were layoff after layoff and reorgs. There was a weird focus on projects everyone knew users didn't care about, a lack of timely feedback, an obvious gap in understanding between higher-ups and ICs, and consistently tight deadlines. This is a given, but Twitch is one of those companies that gives you PTO but doesn't want you to actually use it. (When I first joined Twitch, it still had its own culture separate from Amazon, but Amazon's influence grew, so my perception skews negative.)
- 1.0Company going sourSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesJuly 12, 2017Pros: Free food and drinks Gaming room Good work equipmentCons: Culture has changed with the growth of the company. Twitch was once a very positive place, which is turning sour. It's a very cliquey culture, and far too many people now default to saying no to everything, with a very negative outlook. Career growth opportunities are a joke. Companies small and large are eating Twitch's lunch, such as Discord, YouTube, and Facebook. Surprisingly, a large amount of people work at Twitch who do not use Twitch. RIP customer focus.
- 5.0Starting to ScaleSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesSeptember 19, 2018Pros: Twitch is really coming into its own. Proper management and HR have provided much-needed stability after years of rapid expansion. The website scales well, and the technology has matured within AWS. Smart and talented people join the company each week from places like Facebook and Google. There's a bandwagon called e-sports, and everybody is jumping on it.Cons: There's a little divide between "old" Twitch and "new" Twitch. New leaders are much more capable at our current size and scale, and that's really upset some of the old leaders. Nothing for anyone coming in the door to worry about, but it's an unfortunate by-product of a growing company.
- 3.0It was fun until it wasn'tSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesApril 10, 2024Pros: One of the more inclusive companies that also seemed to care about its employees' learning and working styles, until it didn't. Nice benefits, ERGs, mostly cool coworkers.Cons: Poor management, super disorganized, and slow processes. Code reviews and Slack replies took forever, and everyone was burnt out. There were layoff after layoff and reorgs. There was a weird focus on projects everyone knew users didn't care about, a lack of timely feedback, an obvious gap in understanding between higher-ups and ICs, and consistently tight deadlines. This is a given, but Twitch is one of those companies that gives you PTO but doesn't want you to actually use it. (When I first joined Twitch, it still had its own culture separate from Amazon, but Amazon's influence grew, so my perception skews negative.)
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