Netflix

• Very professional.
• The best culture you'll find in the market.
• Unlimited holidays, paid Uber for commute, loads of company events with perks, and vouchers for employees to enjoy.
• Lots of freedom to do your best work, while also giving you the trust and responsibility to make decisions.
• No "we're a family" mottos. You and your peers are accountable for your mistakes, and you're expected to act as a world-class professional and encourage that in your peers. You're paid a top salary, so it's expected for you to be your best version.
• Awesome product, coworkers, perks, pay, and work style.
• Flat software engineering roles. No principals, no staff, no seniors or juniors. All engineers are hired as Senior Software Engineers and expected to have the maturity of one.

Engineering is still not so big in Amsterdam. LG and LA are still the main hubs, and this means working on very awkward hours in order to participate in engineering events.

Salaries are much bigger than many other companies in NL and very comfortable, but still considerably lower than what your peers are making in the US, in a magnitude of 3x-4x times lower.

There are very few opportunities for software engineers in Europe to move teams and work on other challenges. Managers are still trying to figure out how to deal with the 9-hour difference in timezone and how to make the experience reliable and sustainable. There is a lot to improve here.

For HR: Come up with a framework for Software Engineers in Europe. Be more clear about their salaries and why there is such a big disparity.

For hiring managers: Try to build more skills on your team towards asynchronous communication practices and foster those.

For the engineering organization in general: Make EMEA-friendly editions of engineering events. It's not easy to join a tech strategy meeting at 11 PM or a team's all-hands at 1 AM. Recording the meeting helps, but makes it impossible for engineers in Europe to chime in and contribute on the spot.