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QA Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Netflix for 4 years
June 18, 2015
Los Gatos, California
3.0
Pros

Great pay, free lunches, flexible hours, no weekends, brilliant co-workers.

Cons

I have worked for Netflix for several years and I can honestly say that a lot of the groups, now including where I was, has started managing up. The transparency is slowly eroding. Opinions are still accepted but disregarded under the guise of management speak. Quality is no longer a standard for shipping products; it's now the need to be perceived as "fast" regardless. Management has run amok, and the standard of hiring managers has plummeted. I left on my own accord, just so that people don't think it's another disgruntled employee.

Advice to Management

Whether intentional or unintentional, not listening to the people with experience and history of how the group works will eventually make the culture deck obsolete. Discouraging people to directly talk and speak their mind, and making unilateral decisions without a concrete plan, will eventually catch up to you.

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