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Reputation usually lags reality by 5+ years. See: Google.
Absolutely right. Netflix was once all about the sports team mentality. Now they’re Man Utd.
I wonder if there will be any long term reputational repercussions for Netflix because of this. Amongst SWEs, Netflix is known for hiring the best people and their streaming service normally seems very solid. Other streaming services have definitely caught up a bit and are much more reliable then in the early days, but my impression still has always been that Netflix is a step above the rest technically. This sure do…
From what I've heard, Netflix has really diluted the culture that people know of from the Patty McCord days. In particular, they have been revising their compensation structure to issue RSUs, add in a bunch of annoying review process, add in a bunch of leveling and titles, begin hiring down market (e.g. non-sr employees), etc. In addition to doing this, shuffling headcount, budgets, and title quotas around has in gen…
Or did they have a lot of needs that they decided didn't require top-skilled people?
Or was this a beancounter thing, of someone deciding that the company was paying more money on staffing than they needed to, without understanding it?
I wonder if there will be any long term reputational repercussions for Netflix because of this. Amongst SWEs, Netflix is known for hiring the best people and their streaming service normally seems very solid. Other streaming services have definitely caught up a bit and are much more reliable then in the early days, but my impression still has always been that Netflix is a step above the rest technically. This sure do…
They stream plenty of pre recorded video, often collocated. Live streaming seems like something they aren’t yet good at.
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I don't bet so I have no clue, but why is that? Are people able to place bets in the middle of the match or something? I would have assumed bets get locked in when the fight starts
Idk about traditional sports books but on Polymarket you can certainly continue betting at any time until the market resolves.
I last saw Tyson at +500 while Jake was around -800 on DraftKings somewhere in the 6th round.
Everyone pointing out that their illegal streams, X streams, etc. work fine are kind of missing the point. These secondary streams might be serving a couple thousand users at best. Initial estimates are in the hundreds of millions for Netflix. Kind of a couple of orders of magnitude difference there.
Piracy is distributed, yes. I think that is the point, in fact.
All these engineering blog posts, distributed systems and these complex micro-services clearly didn't help with this issue. Netflix is clearly not designed nor prepared for scalable multi-region live-streaming, no matter the amount of 'senior' engineers they throw at the problem.
Well, yes. Who would think Netflix was designed for that? They do VOD. They're only trying to move into this now.
Main event hasn’t even started yet. Traffic will probably 10x for that. They’re screwed. Should have picked something lower profile to get started with live streaming.
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Absolutely right. Netflix was once all about the sports team mentality. Now they’re Man Utd.
Given Man Utd under Ferguson used to be THE football team, you could say they were always Man Utd and still are ;-)
I wonder if there will be any long term reputational repercussions for Netflix because of this. Amongst SWEs, Netflix is known for hiring the best people and their streaming service normally seems very solid. Other streaming services have definitely caught up a bit and are much more reliable then in the early days, but my impression still has always been that Netflix is a step above the rest technically. This sure do…
It may vary by ISP. It’s been fine for me.
But also people were saying they weren't having any issues streaming on Ziply.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ZiplyFiber/comments/1gsenik/netflix...
I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 500 company. The dumbest engineer on our team left for Netflix. He got a pay raise too. Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.
> I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 500 company. The dumbest engineer on our team left for Netflix. He got a pay raise too. Apparently he was smart enough to get away from the Fortune 500 company he worked at, reporting to yourself, and "got a pay raise too." > Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. See above. > If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Net…