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Re: Ask HN: What is it like working at Netflix?

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Post by kzisme » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 12:19 PM UTC

relix42 wrote: post #30

If you're good and what you do and have passed the interview process, you'll be fine. The fact that you are self-aware enough to understand the high performance culture and what it takes to meet that bar further indicates that you'll fit in. There isn't a stack rank system at all. Nothing like it in fact. High turn over - more so in the customer service side of the business; not the engineering side. Source: work at…

Do you have any tips for someone who will be interviewing for jobs in the near future?

Not specifically Netflix but anywhere.

Re: Ask HN: What is it like working at Netflix?

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Post by kethinov » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 2:24 PM UTC

CrankyFool wrote: post #67

svachalek wrote: post #56

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I don't think there is an ESPP at Netflix.

Take this as authoritative: There's no ESPP at Netflix. I've been here long enough to remember when there was one :)

Back when it was in place, was 100% contribution a thing or was my info incorrect for back then too?

Re: Ask HN: What is it like working at Netflix?

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Post by hamburglar » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 10:49 PM UTC

CrankyFool wrote: post #69

hamburglar wrote: post #24

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I've worked for a company with "unlimited" vacation time, and "Orwellian joke" really is a great way to put it. In addition to everyone being careful not to be the guy who takes too much vacation (oh, except the slackers, of course), the value of an individual vacation day drops in everyone's eyes (no scarcity) and the result is that management develops an attitude that it's more acceptable to veto specific vacation…

You can't just implement "unmetered vacation" and have it all work out -- it has to be part of a set of practices. For example, at Netflix as a manager I don't "veto" any proposed vacations, because my engineers do not propose vacations -- they tell me what time they're taking off. It's their job to make sure that's not going to be a surprise to anyone covering for them, and it's not my job to check that they've done…

It sounds to me like Netflix has this policy implemented better than the one I experienced and the ones I've heard nightmare stories about.

Re: Ask HN: What is it like working at Netflix?

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Post by anxrn » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 5:48 PM UTC

lewisl9029 wrote: post #34

anxrn wrote: post #17

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Netflix pays only base salary, no stocks (RSUs). Total compensation at most other comparable companies has a significant stock component. The H1B reports only include base salary. So which they do pay well, no doubt, it is misleading to compare them to other companies based solely on H1B data (i.e., base salary).

Fair enough, but personally I'd rather take the extra cash and manage my investments myself (and avoid the whole golden handcuffs business that I keep hearing about).

I agree. I didn't mean to imply the Netflix model was poorer.