Tom Tessier is the Senior Manager of our Early Career Program.
With over a decade of experience working with students, Tom is passionate about helping students find their purpose.
Tom loves coaching our interns and helping them realize their professional goals at Twitch and beyond. When he’s not in the office, he can often be found in a fitness class, skiing in Lake Tahoe, or searching for an iced coffee.
Internship Applications are Open!
Live Now!
- Mobile Engineering (Android & iOS)
- Security Engineering
- Software Engineering
Coming Soon:
- Marketing
- Partnerships
Internships are limited to applicants from North America.
Kappastone Project
As the internship program’s foundation, you’ll own a capstone (“Kappastone” ) project from start to end — one that solves a real company need. Apply your classroom knowledge in a true work environment, all while earning course credit (pending school requirements).
We Play Co-op
You’ll work with a cohort of intern peers and collaborate in groups dedicated to career growth, navigating tech, and more. When you leave Twitch at the end of the summer, you’ll do so with a diverse network of lifelong peers.
Dedicated Mentors
You’ll be supported every step of the way by a mentor and a manager who have your back. Work with your manager to scope your project, and lean on your mentor for skill development. You’ll have access to guild-specific and alumni-specific mentorship groups as well.
Your journey really begins with a 15 - 30 minute call with our Intern team. Remember Tom? That’s him. One of the goals of this call is to see if your skill set is a great match for our open internship opportunities.
Beyond that, this is our chance to get to know you beyond your resume, and just as importantly, it’s your chance to get to know us. So bring questions about our company culture and our program.
Have an accessibility need that you’d like us to support during your hiring process? If you’re comfortable, share that information with your recruiter as early as possible so we can best support you.
You can’t complete a quest without the right preparation and some sage advice. We’ll give you some coaching so that you can move into your onsite interviews confidently.
These are a few general tips:
- Use the STAR Method (Situation, Task, Action, and Result) to craft an organized and effective response
- You can learn more about STAR Method here, but to summarize it: describe the situation or task you needed to complete, explain the goal you were working towards, describe the steps you took to achieve that goal, and finish up by sharing the outcome and lessons learned
- Review Twitch’s Leadership Principles
- Brush up on your Data Structures and Algorithms fundamentals. One of your interviews will explicitly focus on your understanding of concepts in data structures while the other will focus more on coding ability.
At last, we’ve reached the final level. Take a deep breath, you’ve come a long way.
Onsite Interviews are two, 60 minute interviews that consist of a short behavioral portion followed by a 40 - 50 minute technical interview question. Intern candidates interview with a member of a team hosting an intern the following summer, however they may not necessarily join that individual’s team. That said, all interviewers will be asking similar technical questions and be able to answer questions about Intern life at Twitch.
Questions will range from technical to behavioral, so your teammates can get a better understanding of your experience, potential, and values. This is your interview as much as it is ours, so come prepared to ask questions about the role, day-to-day tasks, and the team and company culture.
Our onsite interviews are fully remote (don’t worry you’ll still get a virtual tour of the office). Depending on everyone’s availability they may be spread over a couple days.
I was on the Builder Products Team, which works primarily with internal infrastructure tools. From day one I felt like I was actually a team member (not just an intern), and everyone encouraged me to ask questions and participate.
What’s different about the Twitch internship? Projects you work on are actually production products and affect the company in the long run. Sometimes you even get to see your product on the website itself! That kind of impact is inspiring; I love knowing that my work actually matters.
I learned to be uncomfortable because at the end of the day, when you’re uncomfortable, it means you’re learning and growing. My team and mentor were always supportive and willing to sit down and dig into the details with me.
Twitch’s tight-knit community translates to the intern program. I loved getting to know other people in my cohort. It’s been nine months since I joined Twitch full time and I still sit down with friends from my cohort to talk about the experiences we’ve shared as interns and employees.
I was a software engineering intern on the Builder Products Team, which works on internal infrastructure tools. From day one, I was in a welcoming environment where everyone wanted to see me succeed; we even got to meet some of Twitch’s leadership team.
The biggest lesson I learned during my internship at Twitch was to never stop learning. You’re always applying new skills or finding more efficient ways of doing things.
Applications will open shortly for our Summer 2025 Data Science Internships. Sign up to be notified when these applications go live.
Graduate Internships are limited to applicants from North America.
Data Science Program
As a Data Science science grad intern, you’ll be at the forefront of helping Twitch leverage it’s data to help uplevel our creator experience and ourselves. Data Science Interns apply their current coursework to the projects they’ll own and champion. They’ll also have the opportunity to publish work pending alignment with the business.
Continued Research Opportunities
Given the common overlap of graduate research with internship work, graduate interns have the potential to continue their work after their summer pending business interest and funding. Past graduate interns across disciplines have continued in part time capacities and in some cases, shared research with peers and graduate cohorts.
Dedicated Mentors
As a Data Science Intern, you’ll be supported every step of the way by a mentor and a manager who will have your back. You’ll also collaborate with your peers across our Data Science teams to attend talks, teachbacks and leadership talks.
