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

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Post by sjg007 »

nonamechicken wrote: post #116
jlesk wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

A while back, I remember reading something about how Netflix will periodically re-interview their employees and if they fail, fire them. Is it (still) a thing? Also, what about stories such as this: http://www.npr.org/2015/09/03/437291792/how-the-architect-of... "Today, Netflix offers unlimited vacation time, high salaries. This company doesn't care how long you're in the office, but they do care about what you produ…

That culture fired her as well..

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Post by ksk »

lovich wrote: post #131
nodesocket wrote: post #31

I attribute and applaud the strong leadership of Reed Hastings. Apple and Tim Cook is another example. Both companies keep their products and secrets close to their chest, and don't put-up with employees who think their political views or personal agendas are more important than the company. Leadership by committee (Google is notorious) in my view is not the answer. Large public companies should be dictatorships. The…

Why should they be dictatorships?

I guess because there is no established successful business model of having 100 people giving management direction to a company. Would be easy to disprove though.

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Post by shmerl »

ksk wrote: post #149
shmerl wrote: post #130

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> I can almost guarantee that Netflix is not imposing this DRM by their own volition. Where can we get their own films and shows DRM-free?

How much are you willing to pay for it?

To pay for something, it should be available first. So it's pointless to ask, if you can't buy it for any price.

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Post by byebyetech »

jlesk wrote: post #46
canttestthis wrote: post #27

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Their culture is singularly focused on performance... so both.

Netflix employee here. We have a high performance culture, certainly, but it's not the singular focus. I have probably seen just as many people let go for their inability to work well with others as anything performance-related. From our culture page: "...there are no “brilliant jerks.” The cost to teamwork is just too high. Our view is that brilliant people are also capable of decent human interactions, and we insis…

When you say High performance culture, does it mean you have to work more than 8 hours a day? Is it butt-in-the-seat culture? if not, how do you measure performance? Would be great to know.

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Post by briga »

brailsafe wrote: post #15
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.

What's even harder to wrap my head around is that according to this survey around 15% of people at Netflix think they're not compensated fairly. What do they want? 400k? 500k? Would a salary of a million dollars a year be enough?

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Post by sambe »

briga wrote: post #155
brailsafe wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What's even harder to wrap my head around is that according to this survey around 15% of people at Netflix think they're not compensated fairly. What do they want? 400k? 500k? Would a salary of a million dollars a year be enough?

If you worked at Netflix and everyone around you made a million whilst you made half a million, you might give such an answer on a survey, and it probably wouldn't change with the absolute amounts.

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Post by ksk »

shmerl wrote: post #153
ksk wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much are you willing to pay for it?

To pay for something, it should be available first. So it's pointless to ask, if you can't buy it for any price.

Well if a lot of people were willing to pay more for DRM-free, or if people avoided DRM'ed content, it would make business sense to do that. Its easier to effect change from the bottom up, than demanding a company change their policies just because you disagree with them. For example, EMI experimented with selling their entire catalog DRM-free on itunes for 30 cents more per track in 2007. I don't think it turned out well for them. That's the only one I remember off the top of my head. Seems like you're interested in this topic so you may have other examples.

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Post by atulatul »

bborud wrote: post #139
0xbear wrote: post #76

Seems like selection bias. Netflix fires you if you’re not happy.

Is it bad that Netflix fires people who are not happy working for them?

I think the parent comment meant that since unhappy people are fired, remaining people are happy ones and these happy ones participated in the survey thus resulting into the survey result... selection bias. It is not about whether it is good for netflix or not.

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Post by shmerl »

ksk wrote: post #157
shmerl wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To pay for something, it should be available first. So it's pointless to ask, if you can't buy it for any price.

Well if a lot of people were willing to pay more for DRM-free, or if people avoided DRM'ed content, it would make business sense to do that. Its easier to effect change from the bottom up, than demanding a company change their policies just because you disagree with them. For example, EMI experimented with selling their entire catalog DRM-free on itunes for 30 cents more per track in 2007. I don't think it turned out…

What makes sense is to offer an option instead of saying "we know better what you should want, so we won't offer it".

Music sells just fine DRM-free on Bandcamp. Games sell fine DRM-free on GOG. So I don't see any reason for films to be different. Lack of DRM-free video has nothing to do with lack of demand, but more with paranoia and backwards thinking of some legacy media execs.

See https://www.gog.com/forum/general/introducing_gogcom_drmfree...

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