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Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries

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Re: Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries

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Lots of marketing coming from the Netflix CEO lately. Anyone notice a similar trend?

Do shareholders want Hastings promoting his personal brand? What does that achieve? If it's about recruitment it is very tone-deaf considering the current situation with Covid.

Re: Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries

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I never understood why Netflix frequently gets mentioned in the same context as Apple, Google, and Amazon. I think I hear more about it than Microsoft on here. Can anyone explain this to me? Surely they aren't the only newish company that tries to employ smart people by paying well.

Probably because of FANG association. FANG = Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google

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I don't know if I agree with the idea that 'rockstar' engineers are worth they much more, but the 'counterpoint' article referenced doesn't seem to really contradict Hastings' point... if the idea is that the 'rockstar' dev was a bottleneck because none of the other devs could understand and keep up with him, then wouldn't a solution be to have a whole team of 'rockstars'? It seems like that would solve the problem

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> We didn’t have any mad geniuses building everything from scratch. But our productivity was never higher.

Of course, since "productivity" in software is completely subjective, every claim of higher productivity attributable to whatever cause is by definition correct.

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I have no opinion on Disney, as it's not available in my country, but generally for me Netflix's latency from the play button is much better than youtube's or HBO Go's. HBO's app / web page is full of bugs that would be probably easy to fix (it gets stuck even after I turn my new Samsung TV off and on again, I need to force quit the app). At the same time while youtube offline video watching always works for me on my…

I loved Designated Survivor but HoC is still better imo. Would love to find some new political dramas!

How about four more seasons of drama?

Re: Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries

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I never understood why Netflix frequently gets mentioned in the same context as Apple, Google, and Amazon. I think I hear more about it than Microsoft on here. Can anyone explain this to me? Surely they aren't the only newish company that tries to employ smart people by paying well.

Netflix's development scale seems to be legitimately massive considering their reach across platforms, scale, customers and etc.
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