Netflix reviews

- The salaries are competitive, but not particularly high, despite what their so called slide deck proclaims. Keep in mind that your stock purchase and "bonus" is included, so $160k at Google is the same as $210k at Netflix. - Constant threats of firing, a culture of fear and throwing other employees under the bus to save your own skin. The threats of firing lead to crunch and absurd stress levels. - Employees aren't as intelligent as other high tech firms, they're hired more for the ability to play corporate politics than technical skill. - To follow on the above, the average stay here seems to be about a year. Understand that Netflix isn't an engineering company, it's an entertainment company and a fragile streaming infrastructure and clunky front end is built to consume that entertainment. But content is king, not the technology, and it never will be.

While the Silicon Valley culture seems true to form, the Los Angeles office culture is falling apart, and while everyone is whispering about it, no one is surfacing the problem. It's becoming a traditional Hollywood institution quickly, and I found it extremely disappointing. Here's a few issues that seem to be common: 1) Little room for employees to grow beyond their current roles and swimlanes. 2) The power distance between junior and senior employees in Hollywood functions has rapidly grown 3) Content teams are constantly at war with themselves and other functions 4) Title deflation is real