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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.
Weird part is, if you get into a hedge fund it's not that hard to make that much, even for engineers.
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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.
Also $300K a year is definitely in the "nice problem to have" category.
Netflix - 3.5k Facebook - 17k Google - 60k
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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?
That Glassdoor reference on Netflix software engineer salaries is wrong/outdated from my understanding - I don’t know a single Netflixer making less than $300k.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…
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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…
Interesting. I have a few friends who have interviewed and talked with people there and it's always been described to me as a place that does cut the bottom performers every year. When you hiring only "rock stars" those bottom 10% may still be great. I'm glad to hear that may not be true as it's always put me off from attempting to work there.
The article seems oddly gushy about Blind or "the anonymous employee chat app for employees" -> There must be a better way to write that. It "ask them the kinds of sensitive questions that you normally can't ask: Do you think you are paid fairly? Are you interested in leaving your job?" The sample size is 4174 people across ~40+ companies. So I am not really sure this can be trusted, looks more like a click bait arti…
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> 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.
As someone that works for a company with a moderately similar business model as netflix, I can almost guarantee that Netflix is not imposing this DRM by their own volition. It is highly likely that the owners of the rights to their content force the DRM as a condition of allowing their content to be used.
Where can we get their own films and shows DRM-free?