Pros: Good work-life balance, strong teams around.

Cons: The company makes very little money.

Pros: - Perks in line with other SF tech companies - Decent salary and benefits - Flexible work schedule - Some good people - Games? I guess? - Nice office if you're in Bush or Sansome. God help you if you're in 2EC.

Cons: - Widespread lack of confidence in executive team - Employees openly mock CEO - Cliqueish - No career progression - Low diversity - Not-Invented-Here syndrome - Massive technical debt that's only getting worse - Stack is so fragile that any big event of real importance entails a company-wide code freeze because otherwise, we're guaranteed to go down - Reaction to instability is to slap restrictions on engineering teams instead of addressing fundamental architectural and cultural problems ("operational excellence" -- el oh el) - HR is unprofessional; actually included a curse word in a company-wide e-mail. Many, if not most, core employees at Twitch, including managers and directors, have never worked anywhere else. It shows. Twitch decided to triple in size before investing in a solid foundation built on tooling, DevOps, quality control, and building an engineering culture. Twitch does not have an engineering culture. When most people talk about culture at Twitch, they're talking about the food. Writing code is not engineering. A lot of people don't seem to understand this. Do you want documentation? A knowledge base? Best practices? Mentoring? Some standard kind of bug tracking or requirements management process? Tests? Local development environments? Staging environments? Continuous integration? Forget it. Forget all of it. There's variation here on a team-by-team basis -- some are better than others -- but that just underscores the point that there's no *coherent* culture across the wider engineering org. It's chaos. As a result of this lack of coherence, not just every team but every project ends up spending 60-70% of its engineering effort on deployment, monitoring, alerting, and metrics. Everything is bespoke, and there is massive duplication of effort all around. Every project and every line of code written only makes the situation worse than it already is. God help our skeletal DevOps and systems teams. An enterprising individual could write a whole new antipatterns book based entirely on case studies taken from Twitch. The executive team has no understanding of how software development works at scale.

Pros: What's great is you will definitely deliver impactful work with brilliant coworkers. Perks are decent (though should be judged as part of the compensation package). You get to watch Twitch all day and be ground-zero at one of the newest, coolest movements out there.

Cons: If you want to progress your career or learn from experienced mentors, look elsewhere. History has shown that Twitch is far more likely to promote from outside than from within. It's disheartening, and we continue to lose brilliant, good-hearted people as a result. They are the smart ones who took control of their environments by leaving. Depending on how stagnant your manager is, prepare to have little to no mind paid to your professional development. Engineering more or less follows Amazon's leveling structure, but with more hurdles. Anecdotally, most non-engineers don't have formal leveling guidelines or expectations. The HR department has been the worst of my career. When pressed, we're fed empty promises with a smirk. Virtually the entire HR team quit or was fired recently, and I'm wary of the ones that remain. Most do not feel comfortable working with them, let alone trusting them. I'm sorry for you lone decent ones, as the majority have besmirched you. Toxic culture around management and executives. Executive reviews often go off the rails, and our leaders get petulant real quick. I rarely see genuine moments of humility. Instead, it's posturing and ego-trips. Also, and I hate to bring it up, but many of them are quite unhealthy, and it's reasonable to question their mental or physical capacity to properly lead some of the brightest minds in the industry. Not the shining exemplars you'd hope were at the helm. Many of us would prefer Amazon just completely take over. If you're still keen on applying, definitely do research into the specific managers you'd be working with. There are some awesome ones, notably from post-acquisition (surprise, surprise).