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Was Good Until It Wasn't

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Netflix for 4 years
April 11, 2025
Los Gatos, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • Pay
  • Cool Office
  • Free lunch
Cons

Technically uninspired. Surprised at how many other experienced engineers here don't understand core concepts like immutability and idempotency, which leads to badly designed systems. The work is boring and easy and will not make you a better engineer.

My managers didn't do anything, which left ICs to deal with PMs and designers all the time.

Disorganized management and structure. Instability in management made it obvious how unnecessary most of them were.

Advice to Management
  • Avoid promoting ICs into management roles of large teams.
  • Require managers to actually do something resembling work to help their reports.

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