Twitch

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.

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.

If you can't do the job, let someone else do it, rather than ruining the lives of everyone around you and the whole company.

If all of the products coming out of your org are a complete failure, you should be fired, not own more stuff because of some kindergarten friendship.

If you are terrible at hiring and leading people, you probably shouldn't be a VP of anything.

If you keep having to fire people in your org, including those you hired yourself, because of one issue or another, maybe you are part of the problem.

If you don't have a company strategy, why is there even a chief strategy officer?

There are plenty of people who are both experienced and willing to step up to steer the ship in the right direction. Do us all a favor and get out of the way.

I'm sure you've already conned enough money from Amazon to not have to work.