Twitch

Twitch has been consistently a good place to work since I joined. It's not perfect, but I'd take this over pretty much all my friends' jobs who also work in tech in SV.

• Happy with my pay and benefits
• Company is doing well
• Amazon mostly leaves us alone
• Great new workplace (SF only)
• Smart coworkers, if sometimes immature
• Freedom to do my job the best way

The last point is pretty important to me. I'm not micromanaged. I understand others may feel differently about their teams, and that's valid, but it hasn't been my experience. I can say I've gotten better at my profession since I joined, which is as much as I could really ask for.

Some inexperienced teammates have the best of intentions, but wind up slowing you down, creating unnecessary controversy, Slack debates that go nowhere, and so on.

The sometime road-to-nowhere project that gets dropped on us and then killed can be pretty annoying, too.

Values aren't enough; train managers better. But mostly, keep going in the current direction.