Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the years ahead?

Post by alisonkisk » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 10:21 PM UTC

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Agreed. What made netflix successful initially was their access to IP. That's going away fast as every IP producer is pushing for their own paid streaming service (which sucks, btw). With big heavyweights like Disney that own a huge percentage of content having their own services, netflix is really going to struggle being anything more than niche media providers (anime) and their own inhouse media. If they are lucky,…

>That netflix has technical chops isn't going to be a saving grace. Rather, it will mean engineers from netflix will likely be able to secure jobs at other streaming providers. Presumably it also means that there's no reason for Netflix to be paying absolute top of the heap salaries for engineering talent. And I assume companies like Disney mostly don't and won't.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 10:21 PM UTC

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I have loads of friends who started to cancel their netflix subs and went back to piracy because they grew tired of searching for a way to watch something legally. Now its disney, hbo, prime, whatever. Screw all of this.

Post by smabie » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 10:23 PM UTC

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You are judging them based on perceived quality. There is the potential mistake. Have you considered that maybe quality isn't the most important factor at all times? Or maybe that what you perceive as quality is not what most people are looking for?

Fair enough. They care about subscriber numbers. Although there's probably some correlation with quality so long as you equate the term with quality that appeals to a fairly mainstream audience (i.e. not Euro arthouse fare). But I don't actually see Netflix programming as aiming to make, e.g. reality TV drek. Most of their programming does seem to be aiming for midbrow quality although it often doesn't hit it.

Post by squeaky-clean » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 10:24 PM UTC

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I only have Netflix disc rental (blu-ray, one disc out at a time, costs about $10/month). The library is huge and goes back decades. There are usually good user reviews at the Netflix web site for guidance. I suspect there are thousands of theatrically released movies that Netflix only offers on disc, not streaming. In the last ten years, I've rented almost 900 movies (including a few TV shows like Breaking Bad) on d…

> Discs have great resolution, often have bonus features, and almost always have closed captioning, which I appreciate more and more as I age. Don't they get scratched these days? I remember the DVD days of Blockbuster, and also thinking "DVD as a technology is just not ready for rental" every time I got a disc that was scratched and/or had sticky stuff glued to it.

Post by psyc » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 10:25 PM UTC

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Well, when I left in 2010 it was extremely true. Not even remotely in the ballpark. According to Levels.fyi they pay about 50% more now, but still less than any FAANG.

My impression when I was at MS was that they hire you at a competitive market salary, and their HR claims to do surveys and keep your yearly increases in line with market rates, however it seemed pretty easy for increases to not keep pace with market rate increases, in part because the market rate has increased pretty steadily lately. I don't think they're the only ones with this issue. Job hoppers can get bigger rai…