Pros: Pay is great. Free food. Good 401k match.

Cons: Culture deck is a bunch of lies. The reality is this: a) It is hard to find "stunning collages" because hiring is broken. If you are good at talking and repeating culture jargon in the interview, you can easily get hired. You can look on LinkedIn to see the qualifications, background, and education level of our engineers. Many engineers here are from "bodyshop" Indian IT firms (the likes of Infosys, TCS, etc.), who came onsite and simply switched to Netflix because they can TALK. b) Informed captains (mostly managers) are technically incompetent and have no clue on making any informed, data-driven decisions. Decisions are heavily driven by politics. c) The whole push of open and honest feedback is just a sham to make things look good. Providing critical feedback is impossible here, as it mostly backfires and results in getting fired. So people just keep providing rosy feedback. d) If you were hired into a bad team or don't like the work, it is very, very hard to switch teams. Even if some other manager is willing to take you onto their team, the current manager usually retaliates by triggering a "keeper test" and you get fired. Essentially, your manager tells the new hiring manager that this person was a bad performer, so switching teams to not get fired. e) There is no career growth for ICs here; everyone has the same title and level. However, in management, there is a clear growth path – double standards.

Pros: Great base pay. Some of the engineers are really smart and know what they are doing. Free food and a well-stocked kitchen. Good benefits, including unlimited vacation. Stock is doing great! Hackday is always great and something to look forward to.

Cons: - Innovation is dying at this company. If you compare what the product was in 2011 versus now, they are mostly playing with video playback in the UI and minor features. This is probably because everyone wants to keep their job and have as many projects to continue. - The company does a lot of A/B testing, even for minor text changes. I'm glad they are not in the hardware business, else they would have ruined the company. The product team seems good, but I'm not sure if they know what is right and don't have a gut feeling on anything. - Engineering teams compete with each other to build tools. Sometimes the work done for nine months is thrown away because another team built a tool with cutting-edge technology. - Freedom and responsibility exist, but it all depends on your leader and how much they allow you to exercise it. - NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome within teams. - Managers are sometimes a pain and always want to build their 'own' team with 'own' people, which discourages existing teams. - If you are looking for growth in the team, be careful of which team you are joining. - Favoritism exists. If a manager is really bad with employees but good with their boss, they will get promoted. 360 reviews only matter from peers and not from whom you manage. - You can't raise questions on why we are doing this. If you are not aligned with the manager's vision, sorry, but you will get axed soon based on grounds of technical incompetency. - They try lots of recommendation A/B tests and merch logic, but they are not sure if people will watch the title or not. Ultimately, they need to realize they are a streaming company which has value in only one thing: Content. If you build a great product but the content is not effective, you are relying on the product and not the content to sell. If rivals catch up on the product, it's an issue.

Pros: Company culture is pretty much as advertised. Great people and great lack of office politics. Pays well.

Cons: No longer as small and agile as it was.