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Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Facebook or Google Employees

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Re: Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Facebook or Google Employees

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Post by baddox »

Bahamut wrote: post #3

That Glassdoor reference on Netflix software engineer salaries is wrong/outdated from my understanding - I don’t know a single Netflixer making less than $300k. Netflix seems to have an unusually open culture in general, including topics such as salary - they put their money where their mouth is and basically egg everyone on to beat them. Gotta respect that a company is willing to do that (I don’t work for them, but…

Surely you have some selection bias in your Netflix-employed acquaintances. I would imagine their average/median salary is lower than that.

Re: Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Facebook or Google Employees

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Post by imustbeevil »

shmerl wrote: post #9
fusiongyro wrote: post #6

Without even looking at the article, I would guess so simply because what Netflix purports to do is what they actually do and how they make money, so there's no ethical shell game being played against starry-eyed junior developers.

> so there's no ethical shell game being played Netflix has some shady stuff like DRM going on, while pretending it's not their fault it was pushed into HTML standard.

How can Netflix survive if you're able to pay $15 and download every video they have?

Re: Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Facebook or Google Employees

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Post by pmoriarty »

imustbeevil wrote: post #12
shmerl wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> so there's no ethical shell game being played Netflix has some shady stuff like DRM going on, while pretending it's not their fault it was pushed into HTML standard.

How can Netflix survive if you're able to pay $15 and download every video they have?

"If you want to steal shit that's your prerogative, but don't pretend like you have moral high ground."

Whether making a copy of a sequence of numbers without depriving the "owner" of those numbers of anything is theft is debatable.

Re: Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Facebook or Google Employees

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Post by brogrammernot »

baddox wrote: post #11
Bahamut wrote: post #3

That Glassdoor reference on Netflix software engineer salaries is wrong/outdated from my understanding - I don’t know a single Netflixer making less than $300k. Netflix seems to have an unusually open culture in general, including topics such as salary - they put their money where their mouth is and basically egg everyone on to beat them. Gotta respect that a company is willing to do that (I don’t work for them, but…

Surely you have some selection bias in your Netflix-employed acquaintances. I would imagine their average/median salary is lower than that.

I also don’t know a single engineer whose total comp is below $300k at Netflix. They get paid well and the caliber of talent is top tier.

Re: Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Facebook or Google Employees

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Post by brailsafe »

Bahamut wrote: post #3

That Glassdoor reference on Netflix software engineer salaries is wrong/outdated from my understanding - I don’t know a single Netflixer making less than $300k. Netflix seems to have an unusually open culture in general, including topics such as salary - they put their money where their mouth is and basically egg everyone on to beat them. Gotta respect that a company is willing to do that (I don’t work for them, but…

If this is true, as someone who is unemployed and doesn't watch Netflix, I can't even wrap my head around that number. On the other hand, I'm kind of happy to see that they're making real money by charging real money (unlike others where your information is the only product) and passing that on to the people who make it good.

Re: Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Facebook or Google Employees

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Post by brailsafe »

pfarnsworth wrote: post #7

Duh. The ones that survive are making ~400k/yr pure cash and very very happy. I've heard they will fire very quickly though but those that fit into the culture must be extremely happy.

Do they fire quickly based on culture fit or some performance measure?

Re: Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Facebook or Google Employees

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Post by dec0dedab0de »

imustbeevil wrote: post #12
shmerl wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> so there's no ethical shell game being played Netflix has some shady stuff like DRM going on, while pretending it's not their fault it was pushed into HTML standard.

How can Netflix survive if you're able to pay $15 and download every video they have?

Because it has the effect of making it difficult for honest users to use their product on platforms they arent developing for. While at the same time pirates have no trouble getting their content.

Re: Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Facebook or Google Employees

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Post by [deleted] »

pmoriarty wrote: post #13
imustbeevil wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can Netflix survive if you're able to pay $15 and download every video they have?

"If you want to steal shit that's your prerogative, but don't pretend like you have moral high ground." Whether making a copy of a sequence of numbers without depriving the "owner" of those numbers of anything is theft is debatable.

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Re: Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Facebook or Google Employees

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Post by will_hughes »

imustbeevil wrote: post #12
shmerl wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> so there's no ethical shell game being played Netflix has some shady stuff like DRM going on, while pretending it's not their fault it was pushed into HTML standard.

How can Netflix survive if you're able to pay $15 and download every video they have?

Someone who's going to pirate can readily get all of that content from various sources already.

I highly doubt that anyone has been persuaded to buy a Netflix subscription because of Netflix's use of DRM.

As for 'shady' -- well, not a word I'd necessarily use, but there's plenty of examples where DRM has blocked access to legitimately purchased content.

Re: Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Facebook or Google Employees

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Post by zackelan »

ucaetano wrote: post #8

"When asked to rate the statement, "I'm compensated fairly," 4174 people responded, Blind says." Funny how they don't mention how many people answered the other questions. The survey, as well as the article, is bullshit clickbait.

> The survey, as well as the article, is bullshit clickbait.

To me it reads like barely-disguised native advertising, with every single chart having both the company's logo embedded in it and a direct link to their homepage right below it.

It's sad to see such content appear so prominently on HN.

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