Twitch Software Engineer interview experience (2018)

Twitch Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Sep 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for a Twitch Software Engineer role through a full onsite loop that included coding plus system design and a manager-heavy conversation, and the difficulty was easy on paper but the overall experience felt bad.

Onsite: coding with a poor fit — A coding session on binary trees that felt trivial and poorly run, with unprofessional behavior and a lack of credible questioning.
Onsite: system design — A design round that went well without surprises.
Onsite: hiring manager — A tense, grilling conversation about my background and tenure, with dismissive implications about prior employment.
Onsite: engineer lunch — A lunch chat that largely confirmed the manager didn’t have strong technical credibility. Outcome: I wasn’t offered the role; the takeaway is that even when one round

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Twitch Software Engineer interview experience

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