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date: 2023-03-29T12:39:05+01:00
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author: "ahmza"
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tags: ["career","twitch"]
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tags: ["career", "twitch"]
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description: ""
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canonicalURL: "https://blog.local.ahmza.com/Page%28/posts/twitch-layoffs.md%29"
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image: "webp/posts/twitch-layoffs/feature-anim.webp" # image path/url
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alt: "Bleed Purple" # alt text
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caption: "Bleed Purple" # display caption undercover
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image: "webp/posts/twitch-layoffs/feature-anim.webp" # image path/url
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alt: "Bleed Purple" # alt text
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caption: "Bleed Purple" # display caption undercover
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# Mon 20 Mar 2023
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The news was broken to all Twitch employees that there was going to be a mass layoff that would nuke 1/5th of Twitch's workforce,
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Just over 400 employees. We were not given a date that this would happen we were just told that it would be by the end of the week
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or early the next week.
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# Fri 24 Mar 2023
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The day started with an announcement that Twitch would layoff 1/5th of its workforce. The anticipation of this moment through the
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whole week left hundreds of us with a sick feeling in our stomachs. They had split the layoffs up between APAC, EMEA, And AMER.
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APAC on the chopping block first. We saw people loose access and numbers from our #general Slack channel dither. Each Region had
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@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ wave of people and have hopes that you might just be one of the people to surviv
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Luckily I was one of the folk that was able to keep their jobs this time. But 1/5th of the workforce has surely affected every person
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that works at twitch. We all lost somebody we worked with or reported to and so morale has tanked this past week, and you can see it.
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The #general channel is almost a bone yard.
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The #general channel is almost a bone yard.
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In my team, the GSOC we lost our technicians, these amazing folk made our lives -- the engineers -- much easier we no longer needed
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to worry about emails and phone calls. Now that the Techs have gone this workload has been thrown back at us, and it has shaken up
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@@ -40,8 +41,10 @@ it comes to work will we miss these people, The two Technicians that I worked wi
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interactions.
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# Conclusion
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If you're reading this, and you are a recruiter then please take into account ex-twitch employees effected by this tragic event.
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Shout outs to:
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- [Anastasia Limantzakis](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasia-limantzakis/)
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- [Viktoria (Viki) Bagley](https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktoria-bagley-97a669206/)
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