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You answered your own question. Twitch is solid and well-built. It doesn't need an army of well-paid engineers to maintain it and isn't seeing a great ROI on ne
by asdfasdflkj211 3y ago
You answered your own question. Twitch is solid and well-built. It doesn't need an army of well-paid engineers to maintain it and isn't seeing a great ROI on new features. Some companies repurpose all, many or some engineers when the spreadsheet says to, others fire them wholesale.
- verdverm 3y agoI found it to be rather buggy personally, it constantly freezes and needs to be refreshed
- mbrumlow 3y agoYou might need to reapply your thermal paste and reseat your cup hat sink.
- verdverm 3y agoIt's consistently bad across multiple devices They need to upgrade their encoding / codec I actually did replace my liquid cooler and thermal paste on the beast machine, makes no difference
- nitwit005 3y agoThe mobile app certainly has problems, but you don't need hundreds of engineers to squash the remaining bugs.
- londons_explore 3y agoNot many people realise this. Engineers build stuff. When your product is feature complete, you can get rid of most of them. Big tech companies keeping tens of thousands of engineers on staff despite their core product not seeing substantial changes for years are just wasting money.
- edgyquant 3y agoOr, rather, they are paying what they think are some of the best people in the world not to go out and start the competition.
- blasphemers 3y agoNo company actually does this, they are just bloated because they have so much money and managers rank/value is determined by how many people they manage.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoThey explicitly did this in the 00's. Some circles of top companies over a decade ago were convicted for having anti-poaching agreements amongst each other. May be a bit different now (as others said, free money is gone, so competition cropping up is much harder to do and much less a concern), but the tech boom of the 2000's very much worried about becoming the next MySpace to some startup's Facebook. That's why tech salaries became so high to begin with.
- blasphemers 3y agoThe anti-poaching thing was something completely different. That was preventing other companies from hiring people away from them because they were useful employees, not hiring people to prevent them from competing. Also, anti-poaching agreement kept salaries lower, it didn't inflate them.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoIt goes both ways. They can't collude woth hundreds of studios so they offer top salaries to out-compete the bulk of competition. Then for the remaining studios who can pay, they sign the agreements so they don't keep trying to one-up each other. Which would be bad for their business if they start trying to bid 300k for every worker (which may be what they deserve, but companies will always penny pinch). >That was preventing other companies from hiring people away from them because they were useful employees, not hiring people to prevent them from competing. Aren't these synonymous? You either entrap a necessary employee with contracts and/or absolute top compensation becsuse they are useful or even vital. No one's colluding to keep a janirot wage low (well, society is, but it's no one entity you can sue).
- nine_zeros 3y agoSounds silly. Who's going to save the company during the inevitable outages?
- bradleyishungry 3y agoThey have more competition than ever with youtube streaming actually somewhat catching on and tiktok streams becoming more popular. It seems weird to cut so many engineers when it’s probably most important now to innovate. Its not even just R&D that’s important, either. Their product is worse in some aspects than their competitors and a lot of the reason why they’re still dominant in their space is just the community of users on the website.