Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Twitch with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 41% positive. To compare, the company-average is 43.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 80 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Twitch overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Twitch as a Software Engineer according to 80 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
One on one interview: 23%
Skills test: 12%
Presentation: 10%
Group panel interview: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 3%
Other: 3%
Drug test: 1%
Background check: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Twitch in Jul 2018
Interview
I applied online and received a response about a week after. Within another week I had a phone screen with a recruiter followed by an online coding challenge (2 questions on Codility). The following week had a video interview with a manager going over work experience and behaviorial type questions. This initial process took about 3 weeks in total.
They scheduled me for an on-site visit about two weeks out at the office in Irvine, CA; in the meantime, the recruiters offered lots of interviewing advice and even called a few days before to go over the schedule and what to expect. The on-site took about 6 hours and was broken into four 1:1 or 1:2 person interviews, a lunch break with "lunch buddies", and a recap with the lead recruiter.
The recruiting team was very polite, clear, and prompt, and the interviewers were very relaxed and inviting. Visiting the Twitch OC office itself was a blast -- they packed me "goodie bag" full of snacks, gave me a tour (which has some amazing game-related art), and made sure I felt at home before diving in. The team managed to turn what would normally be an intimidating interview marathon into a fun tech conversation. Hands-down the best recruiting experience I've ever had.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were several questions aimed at designing around constraints (i.e. given a scalability/performance/security/etc restriction, what tools/architecture/etc would you use to solve a problem).
I passed the Codesignal pre-screen and was invited to an intro call. The intro call included behavioral questions which I didn’t expect so I was not able to give good answers. The recruiter seemed cold and disengaged, he did not answer my email about interview process and did not turn on camera during the call, probably typical for big companies due to high volume of candidates.
At first I got the call from the recruiter for the screening process. Asked about the things on the resume work I did before. Then progressed to assesment round that consisted of OOPS coding question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
one OOPS coding question was given in the OA 2 hrs max.
A recruiter reached out and described the role, sent out an online CodeSignal assessment. Afterwards waited a few days to receive invite to a 45-minute technical interview with the hiring manager.