Hi, my name is Chloe and I am a product manager at Discord but you may know me
as the girl who quit TikTok. But today I'm bringing someone
who also just quit his job. Kevin, come join the news! Hello! Hey everyone, I'm Kevin. After 5
years being a software engineer at Twitch, I just quit. Yay! And I feel like I just
quit Twitch too because I feel like I have been an honorary employee at Twitch since I've
been visiting so much due to Kevin. Fun fact: we actually met through Twitch so I've had a
lot of memories at the Twitch office. And as for why I left Twitch and where I'm going next- Well,
actually we're going to talk about that later! But first, we're gonna bring you
along our last day at the Twitch office. I went too so it's my last
day as well so let's do that first. Look at all these commuters. It's a race to the top! You know where we're going? No. Secret tunnel! Yo, this is quite the commute. We're
out here hustling- more like having fun. We're on the grind, no cap, on god. Oh no, what have you become. No, I tripped. We made it to the Twitch office! Thank you! Alright everyone, we're here and it is Kevin's last day in the office. How do
you feel, Kevin? I feel like today is my last day in the office. It's very exciting. It
feels like the most last day of all last days. What do you want to do today as your last day? Eat a Twitch cookie. They're the best cookies. We'll do that. And I would also like to play Smash. Do you have a lot work today? I have work to do. We will go show you around Twitch, let's go! SIKE. This way! I know what I'm doing. I've been here
a billion times. I work here as a food eater. Hi. I got this snack. It's my
favorite snack, maybe ever. Well, it's my favorite snack
in the office for sure. It is premium quality minimally processed popcorn. Malaysian pink salt- Himalayan-
popcorn with Himlayan. Did ya get that wrong? You're
a popcorn fiend, Kevin. Okay, go enjoy your last good popcorn. Well, I'm
probably gonna grab a second bag later today too. You can grab four more. Hi y'all. Kevin just booked me a meeting room
so that I can take my team meeting. I have a meeting right now for an hour and then my
friend Ivan is gonna come over for lunch. And then I got a couple more meetings to get
through and hopefully end the day a little bit early since it's Kevin's last day and I want
to make sure he gets some time to spend around. We want to tour the office a
little bit and show you around. Definitely want to go to the game room.
There's a lot of smash, smashing, smashers. A lot of melee smash players out and about
in the game room. Meeting time, meeting time! Alright so I know you're like Chloe, what
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this video. Now, let's get back into it. It's Roland the goon. Are you
joining us for lunch? Let's do it. We're waiting for our friend
to come. His name is Ivan. You sure he's not just outside? I
saw some asian dude- Oh, there he is! Oh, it's been a while! I know right? I need your help for a minute. Yes, yes, yes. So please help me figure out if I can park
her because this is like really confusing. You cannot park here, unfortunately. It's
no stopping so you have to move this. It has to be a really good photo. Amazing, great work. We made it, let's go! Let's just finally go to lunch. Come through, Ivan. Kevo. Alright! I have two cookies and we're gonna get a third. Ivan got it too! This is the lemon one, right? Lemon
white chocolate, that's my favorite. Alright everyone, I want to introduce
you to some Twitch staff and friends. I'm Reina. I am a front-end
engineer. I'm actually on the same team as Kevin. I used to be a classical violinist. And we have special friend,
Scott, actively a musician. Actively but also working in program management in e-commerce here in the city. So I play as
often as I can and still still keep it fun. Hello, I'm Mandy. I'm a UX
designer here at Twitch. She's my only successful referral. I'm visiting Chloe in San Francisco all the
way from Boston. So I was the music director of Assassin's Creed and if you played video
games like Final Fantasy, you probably have heard me playing the piano throughout
the game as part of the original soundtrack. Glad to be here with gorgeous
dinner and gorgeous people. Hello, it is after lunch and we're going to get
some secret ice cream and it's in this corner. Here it is. Oh my god, there's secret hot pockets too. Lactaid? Oh, there's nothing in there. Yo, what's up everybody it's
your boy the bokchoyboy, back at it again from the Twitch office. Hello, this is our 6v6 game rooms. Six because Overwatch was a thing but it's no longer a thing
so you can see we have Twitch gaming chairs. Sometimes well- you work right, like this? Yeah work hard, work really hard. I just found out that these computers
aren't really working anymore because they they're not set up properly. Yeah, I mean you can look at that. No,
that's like this is an up-and-coming game. It's what all the kids are playing these days. Usually like Fridays during happy hour,
people would come down here to play together. Yeah, League, TFT. So these PCs are stronger because
they had VR hooked up to it. I'll show you the other game room. The other big
game room, we have foosball. We have a really big orange couch. We got this couch, I think, for
one of the company holidays. We got some board games. And the corner over there, I'm mostly here
for Super Smash Brothers Melee for the Nintendo Gamecube developed by Hal Laboratories in 2001.
Killer queen is the most fun arcade game ever. And there's also ski ball in the corner and
no one likes it because it's super loud. How do you feel? It's the last hour of your last
day. Yes, I wish I were playing Melee right now. This is really awkward when
everyone looks. Everyone is staring. Are you gonna miss this- this scene? I'll miss it, I mean I'll be here
when i'm back in SF. Bye everyone! Bye, never see you again. It's time to go. It's time to go. Time to say goodbye.
I don't know how the tune goes. Now, where are we off to Kevin?
Now, we're off to dinner. With Josh and Caydie. We're treating them out
to a very lovely dinner in Berkeley because they are so gracious in housing us during
this time. Just like how they did last time. Yes. For the last Discord on-site vlog. Let's diagonally cross, you don't have that a
lot in other cities. You have three seconds, you're gonna die. You're gonna die. I'm going
to die. I have fear of crossing streets. Chloe thinks that as soon as it turns to zero
seconds, the car will just run her right over. Yeah, fair game for them to
run me over. So much commuting. It's good. Good for the soul, it gives you a
space and a break to turn off from work as you transition to the next part of your life. Speaking of transitions, we're
transitioning to dinner. Bye! Yeah, yeah. We're here with Josh and Caydie. Party time! Lots of celebration. Caydie, I must say your fit today is fire.
Thank you, I really like yours. Look at this, look at this. We're matching.
Look at this, so cute! We are here! Kiraku is a local Japanese
restaurant in Berkeley, California. They specialize in yakitori and sashimi dishes. That was perfect. She's kind of derpy. And we're back! Kevin, I am so
proud of you and this milestone. The people want to know, why did you quit Twitch? So, I've always been interested in game
development but was always a little put off by it because I've always heard horror
stories of worst hours and worst pay. But I've always wanted to tell a story through
games and seeing Chloe pursue her content journey has been very inspiring to me and made me
want to just jump in and go for it myself. Hey, I'm so happy for you but
this also means he's going to be poor and then I got to work
overtime. Saying I'm just saying. Yeah, it's definitely going
to be a pay cut but honestly Amazon stocks kind of tanking anyways so it's
like eh. So, I'm going to still be coding, either way. But it's pretty different between
software engineering and game development. Do those differences make it hard
for you in the interview process? A little bit so game development
interviews has a lot more math. Mostly linear algebra so I had to like
brush out my old college textbook and re-review all those things like factors,
and cross products, and dot products. It's been so long since I've heard those things. Yeah, that was very traumatizing though.
There's also a lot more behavioral interview questions because game development has a lot more
cross-collaboration with other cross-functional teams like artists and designers. There's also
fewer questions, I would say, on like just hardcore data structures and algorithms, coding
questions, which is nice. Those are annoying. Talk about all the companies that you interviewed
with. So I interviewed at a few tech companies still, Google and Figma. For game development
companies, I just applied everywhere that was around our area pretty much. I had a lot of intro
chats with a lot of them but because I didn't have direct game experience, we didn't get
very far in the interview processes there. In the end, I went through
most of the interview process with two smaller game dev
studios, Riot and Naughty Dog. After everything's all said and
done, I'm very happy to announce that I will be a Gameplay engineer
on the Valorant team at Riot Games. Yay! Yeah, the interview process was
very lengthy but we got there. But you know what's crazy about the
whole interview process at Riot? What? They don't allow visitors in their
campus right now because of COVID so my on-site interview was
a virtual onsite interview. I haven't even been on campus yet still.
I have though, I actually worked in gaming many years ago and I was there for a business
meeting. The Riot campus is really cool. Nice, I'm super excited to finally be back in the office
again and with my co-workers. I really miss that. Kevin likes that. Yeah, I like just having random
chats with everyone just like passing by. Yeah, I'm like a remote working girl. So I'll be in
the office, Tuesdays through Thursdays because Riot's doing a hybrid work from home situation
so we'll see what that LA commute life is like. I'm so excited for you, Kevin. I'm very excited
to meet all of the other Riot employees there. I heard their culture is really fun. I know you're
chasing after your dream and the pay is definitely a lot lower than tech but we're gonna work
through that. We'll budget, we'll figure it out. To all the aspiring software
engineers and game developers, I hope you found this useful or insightful.
And for everyone else, I hope you've just found it entertaining. Thanks for watching y'all! Thank you to the Unichlos who've been supporting
me all this time. And thank you to Dovetail for sponsoring this video. I appreciate
you all and I'll see you next time, bye!
