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Ask HN: What's the engineering culture like at Twitch?

21 points by tfsh ↗ HN
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?

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morceauxdebois
For 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
Sounds really cutting edge, I wonder if they used the blockchain.
axiosgunnar
How would you implement such a feature without a blockchain?

I suppose with some serverless AI at the edge?

casion
Clicking 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.

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thatsamonad
This 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
I'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/