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Ask HN: What's the engineering culture like at Twitch?
I'm looking at engineering positions at Twitch, however I'm aware they were acquired by Amazon, who from my estimations has a particularly grueling work culture.
A question to any engineers working at Twitch (or any other Amazon acquired company), have you noticed any changes, negative (or positive) interference from Amazon? Or more broadly what would you say of the engineering culture compared to other companies?
- morceauxdebois 5y agoFor 2 years they have bragged about their new feature that when you click on a streamers profile pic, it takes you to their profile page.
- avgDev 5y agoSounds really cutting edge, I wonder if they used the blockchain.
- axiosgunnar 5y agoHow would you implement such a feature without a blockchain? I suppose with some serverless AI at the edge?
- casion 5y agoClicking profile pic takes you to the channel home, which isn't the same as the profile page. The stream page is the profile page (this is under "About" on the channel home) Yes it's a small nitpick, and yes it's a silly thing for them to have "NEW!" next to that "feature" for a long period of time.
- YATA0 5y ago
- thatsamonad 5y agoThis is one line, posted out of context, from a very large codebase. I don't agree that you can learn much about the culture at Twitch from this snippet.
- cableshaft 5y agoI'm curious about this myself. I had an initial Zoom call with a guy at Twitch that was very pleasant, and I asked a similar question and he said they're still pretty segregated from Amazon culturally. At the time it didn't seem like a great fit with his team since they really needed a bunch of people with low-latency streaming video experience, and I didn't have that. Tech-wise, they're getting somewhat more integrated. He told me about IVS, which is basically Twitch-like streaming video services for anyone on AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/ https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/