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Re: Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for?

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Post by futhey »

oso2k wrote: post #262

Do your research. There’s tons of “Best places to work” lists out there. Glassdoor and LinkedIn. Probe your network of friends, acquaintances, friends of friends. I work for Red Hat in Presales. Formerly of Red Hat Consulting for 4.5 years. I’ve been here over 5 years now. Love the place. I’ve only ever worked on our Kubernetes distribution, OpenShift and related products. Great mission. Great work to do. Great peopl…

Most "Best places to work" lists by city or in print publications are "pay to win".

Re: Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for?

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Post by zz865 »

jedberg wrote: post #53

I loved every minute of my time working at Netflix. Great, talented coworkers who I could constantly learn from, management chain from bottom to top of former engineers, so they understood when you would say, "I worked on this for a week but have no results because it didn't work". Plenty of resources to do what you needed to do, and lots of autonomy to do what you thought was right. Very little process and upper man…

I know its a trope here, but why are there a lot of devs in Netflix. I'd think you'd need a few dozen people. Plus basically what has changed in 10 years?

Re: Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for?

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Post by zz865 »

xtracto wrote: post #44

> Project managers don't know anything about technology In my 10+ years of experience, that's the rule rather than an exception. It is very rare to find a Project/Product manager who actually has decent technical knowledge. I think I've found one or two in my whole career (one is now product VP, the other moved to Switzerland).

I have the opposite experience. PMs who are technical that are clueless about people management or management in general.

Re: Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for?

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Post by icco »

zz865 wrote: post #443
jedberg wrote: post #53

I loved every minute of my time working at Netflix. Great, talented coworkers who I could constantly learn from, management chain from bottom to top of former engineers, so they understood when you would say, "I worked on this for a week but have no results because it didn't work". Plenty of resources to do what you needed to do, and lots of autonomy to do what you thought was right. Very little process and upper man…

I know its a trope here, but why are there a lot of devs in Netflix. I'd think you'd need a few dozen people. Plus basically what has changed in 10 years?

I don't work there, but If you're being serious:

- maintaining the number of clients alone is a gargantuan task. Almost every TV manufacturer has a different OS, and many TV models have different OS, plus all of the different consoles, phones, etc - The pure engineering of pushing that many bytes around the world 24/7. - Then storing information about those users for advertisers. https://netflixtechblog.com/revisiting-1-million-writes-per-... - Security, because if they are found negligent (ie making it easy for people to make illegal copies), there goes their business. - Constant product tweaks on the above thousands of clients to make the UI experience consistent across clients. - Performance improvements to keep users engaged. - AI that surfaces what customers want. - Data storage to deal with all of the content they have. - Dynamic content serving based on where in the world you are. - etc.

Re: Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for?

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Post by donaminos »

I did work for a dozen of companies during my career, I can definitely say that the last one I joined, Remote, is the best workplace in the world (at least one of the bests). I tried hard to think about something more that I can ask for, but couldn't come up with. I have:

- Freedom to chose the schedules that suits my personal needs

- Unlimited PTO

- Kindness is in our DNA, from CEO to the last junior joiner, and any management layer in between. I've never seen that much kindness in any company before

- Time + yearly budget for learning

- Competitive salary + stock options

- Amazing and very talented coworkers to learn from

- Great business with huge impact in the world

I did think about what could make me leave Remote, I found only two reasons :

- I want to start my own company (Where I'll do my best to replicate the same values and environment)

- They fired me :D

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