Twitch Senior Software Developer reviews

My biggest complaint is about compensation policy, which Twitch inherits from Amazon. During the last 2 years of the 4-year contract the annual compensation consists of the base salary (which is rumored to have a cap at $185K) and 40% of the RSU grant. Given impressive performance of AMZN stock, this sounds lucrative. In reality once compensation moves into the bracket for the next level, the management is not happy about it. Those who get promoted see only little changes in their compensation and the new hires at the same level get a much better pay. On the other hand, if you are not promoted, chances are that a cheaper new hire will replace you right before your next RSU vesting. So IMO it does not really make sense to stay beyond the 2-year anniversary.

- Not much alignment on any common goals and it's hard to work with other teams. Teams re-implement features that already exist just so they can do it themselves - Management is mainly a mix of career Amazon people and hopelessly inexperienced new hires trying to stay afloat - Zero high level engineering direction. Internal dev tooling is terrible compared to similar sized companies - Zero diversity. 3 women on a team of 60