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Re: Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries

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Post by whycombagator »

xiphias2 wrote: post #12

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…

> Can somebody tell me a new Netflix serie that comes close to House of Cards?

I enjoyed HOC, especially the earlier seasons. A few shows (none of them new though) available on Netflix that I found equivalently good, each got better as they went:

Bloodline[0] - starts slow & builds, I didn't expect to like it as much as I did. Very under the radar, very good.

The OA[1] - similar to bloodline, in that I didn't expect to like it & it got better with each episode/season as the story progressed.

Colony[2] - got cancelled so ends on on cliff-hanger (an exhilarating one), but if you like sci-fi/aliens it'll deliver.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3520702/

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4635282/

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4209256/

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Post by C1sc0cat »

ativzzz wrote: post #152
s1artibartfast wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there is a lot of truth to this. Big Law is a great example of this, where the nearly every firm operates in lockstep on the Craveth Scale[1]. If one firm increases salary, every other firm will for for same cycle. https://www.biglawinvestor.com/biglaw-salary-scale/

Isn't this basically collusion by companies? Didn't Google/Facebook get in trouble for trying something like this at some point?

One rule for lawyers one for the little people

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Post by jtdev »

unoti wrote: post #163
jcadam wrote: post #144

I interviewed at Netflix several years ago. It was a fairly standard SV interview. That is - whiteboard questions on basic data structures and algorithms (I'm 40 and I still absolutely suck at those). Failed of course :) But they put me up in a really nice hotel, so there's that. In the years since, I've definitely lost all interest in working in SV (the fact that I've failed every single interview I've had with SV c…

> ...whiteboard questions on basic data structures and algorithms (I'm 40 and I still absolutely suck at those)... at my age it's time to accept that the window has closed on some things :) If you want to learn and are willing to put in the work you can do it. It will take some number of weeks or months, but it is totally doable with reading and practice. I read and practiced for a few months before getting my job at…

It’s difficult to find the motivation to spend hundreds of hours working on imaginary problems. Kudos to you for doing this though. Many/most of the best developers I’ve ever worked with wouldn’t consider wasting their time on such nonsense. It seems to be somewhat of a litmus test for determining how subservient one is.

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Post by fyfy18 »

ditonal wrote: post #50
znpy wrote: post #32

In my opinion a huge role in the raise of IT people salary is their tendency to brag about their salary, one way or another. For better or for worse, this lead to discussions about salary, negotiating practices, and to people looking elsewhere. I sometimes speak with people that work in other fields and many of them have zero clue about these topics, whereas in most IT-related discussion boards (whether it's HN, redd…

One reason for that is way more variability in developer compensation. A company hiring a senior SWE in SF might be paying 130k or 400k. But until recently there wasn’t much transparency. My buddy is a nurse in Bay Area with a CRNA, it’s pretty much understood you make 225k plus any overtime so there’s not much more to discuss.

$225k for a nurse? And I thought there was a lot of desperaity of tech wages between Europe and the US... The average salary of a nurse in the UK is £25,000.

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Post by renewiltord »

jcadam wrote: post #144

I interviewed at Netflix several years ago. It was a fairly standard SV interview. That is - whiteboard questions on basic data structures and algorithms (I'm 40 and I still absolutely suck at those). Failed of course :) But they put me up in a really nice hotel, so there's that. In the years since, I've definitely lost all interest in working in SV (the fact that I've failed every single interview I've had with SV c…

What were the words they used to decline proceeding? Do you happen to remember?

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Post by Guest42 »

gcheong wrote: post #158
jcadam wrote: post #144

I interviewed at Netflix several years ago. It was a fairly standard SV interview. That is - whiteboard questions on basic data structures and algorithms (I'm 40 and I still absolutely suck at those). Failed of course :) But they put me up in a really nice hotel, so there's that. In the years since, I've definitely lost all interest in working in SV (the fact that I've failed every single interview I've had with SV c…

Not to mention the sheer arrogance so many SV companies have thinking that what they are doing is so special it requires "10x" developers compared to every other company out there.

Agreed, it seems to me often that companies will have greater resume demands for lower levels than 90 percent of the people at the organization, many times for skills that aren’t relevant for projects or business goals, it doesn’t require a tier 1 PhD in order to rush through zen desk tickets

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Post by jimbokun »

mettamage wrote: post #153
dktoao wrote: post #77

I think 100x is hyperbol however you slice it, run away from anyone who tells you they are a 100x developer. 10x may be achievable... but I argue that it is at least partly due to the prevailing code-base. Every competent developer is a 10x developer on a green field project just like every competent developer is a 0.1x developer on a messy legacy spaghetti-code disaster of a project (Making the differential 100x I g…

I have one friend and he programs at least ten times as fast as I do (in typing). I can barely keep it up with reading. And in my CS class I was in the top quarter percentile, he was in the top 1%. The difference is big. They type code as fast as I'm typing this comment, while having a sane architecture. The secret: they programmed a lot more as a kid.

I think the sane architecture is the only relevant part.

Real world "10x" developers are almost always in that class because they can solve the same problem with 1/10th the code of a 1x developer.

Ability to solve problems with less code will always outpace faster typing.

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Post by gowld »

unoti wrote: post #163
jcadam wrote: post #144

I interviewed at Netflix several years ago. It was a fairly standard SV interview. That is - whiteboard questions on basic data structures and algorithms (I'm 40 and I still absolutely suck at those). Failed of course :) But they put me up in a really nice hotel, so there's that. In the years since, I've definitely lost all interest in working in SV (the fact that I've failed every single interview I've had with SV c…

> ...whiteboard questions on basic data structures and algorithms (I'm 40 and I still absolutely suck at those)... at my age it's time to accept that the window has closed on some things :) If you want to learn and are willing to put in the work you can do it. It will take some number of weeks or months, but it is totally doable with reading and practice. I read and practiced for a few months before getting my job at…

Please don't make presumptions and insults about people you don't know.

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Post by jimbokun »

yakireev wrote: post #167
MiroF wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 10x developers If they're causing code quality slide, they're not a "10x developer."

"No true Scotsman"

A Scotsman will always be a Scotsman due to his ancestry or citizenship.

If a 10x developer does not deliver 10x productivity or value of the median developer, they do not meet the definition of a 10x developer.

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Post by kyriakos »

skrtskrt wrote: post #134
kyriakos wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ozark One of the best shows on Netflix

Ozark I think is far and away the best Netflix-created fiction content. It's actual HBO-level prestige TV, which is hard to say about any of the other non-documentary stuff from Netflix. If you get into it, Netflix also carries a bunch of good Korean dramas, which tend to have a lot of episodes and honestly just seem to have much more effort put into them than most American TV. Signal and Itaewon Class are two of my…

I'll look into them thanks. Generally Netflix aims for quantity rather than quality. I think the system works by ensuring there's yet another new thing to watch before you finish watching the previous series. Amazon prime has less own series but they are mostly higher quality stuff imo
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