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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 zerr »

jlesk wrote: post #58
pmiller2 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't they also an extremely cutthroat culture? Being open about that doesn't make it any more appealing to me.

As a Netflix employee, I wouldn't really describe our culture as cutthroat at all. My experience in 5 years has almost entirely devoid of politics. For example, from our culture page: "We have no bell curves or rankings or quotas such as “cut the bottom 10% every year.” That would be detrimental to fostering collaboration, and is a simplistic, rules-based approach we would never support." https://jobs.netflix.com/cul…

> Our culture can feel intimidating, especially if you have any degree of imposter syndrome

Is the management aware that because of this you're missing some great talent out there? Maybe they should consider changing a stance a bit...

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

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Post by richardknop »

jlesk wrote: post #65
fro0116 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By "top tier", do you also mean people who are willing to put in longer than normal hours and deal with a super-competitive culture and the office politics and drama that come with it? Or am I reading too much into the quotations? I'm honestly just interested in hearing more about what the culture at Netflix is like.

Netflix employee here. You can find out a lot about our culture from our culture page: https://jobs.netflix.com/culture It's not just marketing fluff. It really does a good job of reflecting what it's like to work there, and is taken seriously by everyone from the top down. As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it's not a competitive environment, and I've experience very little politics and drama. Those things are…

Where should I send my CV? :D

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

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Post by jondubois »

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That Glassdoor reference on Netflix software engineer salaries is wrong/outdated from my understanding - I don’t know a single Netflixer making less than $300k.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…

That's a very high number for a full time position. I wonder what engineers actually do at Netflix? Seems like most of the work would be behind them...

I feel like a lot of big tech companies these days pay engineers to sound smart rather than for doing actual work. The interview processes at these companies would certainly indicate that.

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

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Post by chrisco255 »

jondubois wrote: post #103
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…

That's a very high number for a full time position. I wonder what engineers actually do at Netflix? Seems like most of the work would be behind them... I feel like a lot of big tech companies these days pay engineers to sound smart rather than for doing actual work. The interview processes at these companies would certainly indicate that.

Behind them? Like, Netflix is through, no need to expand it's offerings? No need to improve it's UX? Introduce new features?

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Post by empath75 »

jondubois wrote: post #103
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…

That's a very high number for a full time position. I wonder what engineers actually do at Netflix? Seems like most of the work would be behind them... I feel like a lot of big tech companies these days pay engineers to sound smart rather than for doing actual work. The interview processes at these companies would certainly indicate that.

Check out spinnaker.

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

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Post by ionised »

skybrian wrote: post #51
flukus wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone else mentioned, netflix subscribers are hurt because only people using edge can get the 1080p version due to DRM. Non-paying pirates get the good version, paying customers get the low quality one.

Who are these videophiles who actually care about 1080p? It seems like if the show is any good, you don't need 1080p to enjoy it. Okay, I'm old, but we watched movies on VHS and it was a lot better than broadcast signal in a rural area. DVD's are very clear in comparison. HDTV is just icing on the cake.

Is this satire?

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

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Post by ehnto »

cletus wrote: post #73
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…

You need to make sure you're comparing apples to apples here. Netflix has high salaries but doesn't (for normal employees anyway) give equity. The other big tech companies do. And equity can be a significant part of your total compensation especially given tech stock performance. I think there's no bonus either but I'm not certain of that part. Note that some will consider paying straight salary an advantage. It's ce…

Equity has so many complications. I would take a solid salary over a not great salary any day. Maybe you miss out on a million dollar payday when the stocks perform well, but at $300,000/year salary, you're not far from it anyway, and at least that's a guarantee.

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

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Post by Flenser »

The graph for compensation/leaving is more revealing if you right align the red bars: https://i.imgur.com/WeJD8na.png

note how with Lyft, Uber and Apple there's no overlap between the percentage that feel compensated fairly and the percentage that would leave (yes I realise the two aren't orthogonal, but it's still indicative).

Edit:

and linkedIn only overlap slightly.

Looking at it another way: https://i.imgur.com/vnMtd3r.png

If you want to reduce the percentage of your employees that want to leave there's two ways to do it: increase compensation, or do whatever Lyft, Uber, Apple and linkedIn are doing.

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

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Post by lr4444lr »

fusiongyro wrote: post #40
shmerl wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I doubt Netflix tell junior developers when they recruit them, that they are now in league with MPAA and on the wrong side of all things copyright. DRM is just a part of it all.

I guess I'm giving you a tip o' the hat as we pass each other by on our respective hobby horses.

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