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Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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On a tangential note, the match totally looked fixed to me - Tyson was barely throwing any punches. I understand age is not on his side, but he looked plenty spry when he was ducking, weaving and dodging. It seemed to me he could have done better in terms of attacking as well.

Yeah the biggest thing to me, and the commentators mentioned this as well, his legs looked REALLY wobbly.

All your attacking power comes from your legs and hips, so if his legs weren’t stable he didn’t have much attacking power.

I think he gave it everything he had in rounds 1 and 2. Unfortunately, I just don’t think it was ever going to be enough against a moderately trained 27 year old.

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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.

This. Overly complex nonsense that they have built up is crazy and the fact that we on a tech forum agree to all of this is crazier. It's almost like this platform has been taken over by JavaScripters completely.

> taken over by JavaScripters

That is an incredible way to phrase the sentiment, thank you.

Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Were they not able to hire enough top-skilled people? If not, why not? 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?

My observation is that Netflix is one of those places that brags about how they do so much with so little employees.

Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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i thought they did DSA interviews at netflix what happened? I had to watch the fight on someone streaming to X from their phone at the event and it was better than watching on netflix..if you could watch at all. extremely embarrassing!

Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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i thought they did DSA interviews at netflix what happened? I had to watch the fight on someone streaming to X from their phone at the event and it was better than watching on netflix..if you could watch at all. extremely embarrassing!

Its because they use medium-hard leetcode instead of hard. I suggest 8 rounds instead of 4

Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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i thought they did DSA interviews at netflix what happened? I had to watch the fight on someone streaming to X from their phone at the event and it was better than watching on netflix..if you could watch at all. extremely embarrassing!

My theory is they've so heavily optimized for static content and distributing content on edge nodes that they were probably poorly setup for live-streaming.

Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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I watched on an AppleTV and the stream was rock solid.

I don’t know if it’s still the case, but in the past some devices worked better than others during peak times because they used different bandwidth providers. This was the battle between Comcast and Cogent and Netflix.

Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

#419

i thought they did DSA interviews at netflix what happened? I had to watch the fight on someone streaming to X from their phone at the event and it was better than watching on netflix..if you could watch at all. extremely embarrassing!

Its because they use medium-hard leetcode instead of hard. I suggest 8 rounds instead of 4

Surely more whiteboard questions are the key? Reversing a binary tree is so last year, they should make candidates reverse an octree.
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