Pros
- Catered breakfast 3x a week, lunch 5x a week, dinner 5x a week - Fully stocked snacks and drinks - Monthly massages - People (at least IC-level people. Not including recruiting or HR -- whole other story) seem genuine and do try to make products successful - Flexible work schedule
Cons
- PMs are poor in vision and have zero understanding of metrics (mainly Communities, Pulse, VODcast, etc). They are all extremely inexperienced and are trying to manage large, impactful products. Feel like they're being set up for failure without any guiding central leadership or principles. Weirdly, the solution seems to be to throw more PMs at an issue. - Exec team feels completely misaligned. Everyone works in their own silo and if something goes wrong, there's a lot of finger pointing and "it was his/her stupid idea". It makes people question whether or not they even know what they're doing, but this problem is also attributed to having... - ...a straight up terrible Chief of Staff/program director (?) who the majority of the company has no idea what she does. The way people talk about her is truly laughable (especially during review and OP1 seasons), and she's supposedly Emmett's right hand. Things include "just do what she asks" regardless of how ridiculous it is because she gets so unnecessarily belligerent. Get someone in place who can actually assist in running a tight ship and be a good mentor, and who is less concerned about appearances. - HR is cliquey and straight up gossips about personal, confidential employee information. At least try to be discreet about it. - Management has no idea how to grow their employees within the company given that we have to follow Amazon guidelines that are incompatible with Twitch. There doesn't seem to be any move to adapt promotion guidelines to our needs.