Twitch interview notes, page 1 of 2

“The no-automated-tests thing threw me more than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Twitch, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic question and I knew it, which almost made it worse because I rushed into the hashmap plus doubly linked list setup without explaining why.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Twitch, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The brute force is straightforward: for each other channel, intersect its follower set with the target's.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Twitch, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to the obvious stuff (better mobile sync, cleaner UI) and could tell pretty quickly that wasn't landing.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Twitch, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with a simple match loop and a result enum, which felt fine, but the streak multiplier tripped me up a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Twitch, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This tripped me up more than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Twitch, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The core math is simple enough but I tripped up on the output format at first.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Twitch, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Blanked for a second.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Twitch, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Blanked for a second because I kept second-guessing my assumptions about average age ranges and how wedding attendance clusters in your 20s and 30s.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Twitch, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I structured it as situation, then actions, then result, which sounds clean but I spent way too long on the setup and barely had time to get into the stuff that actually mattered: the failed attempts.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Twitch, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.