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Culture of Fear

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Netflix for 4 years
July 5, 2017
Los Gatos, California
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Pay is amazing, and the kitchen is well stocked.

Cons

Hiring is a joke. There is a culture of fear you will get fired, so everyone tends to hire people who are less talented than they are. So you are starting out with B-level players hiring C-level who hire D-level. And all live in fear they will get canned. The codebase is blogged about and presented very well, but it's a streaming company. Their value is content, and your technology doesn't matter. Rarely do we hire anyone away from a real tech company (Google, Apple, Facebook, etc.). Those who work here want the money and then stay to defend their employment status because they now spend more and change their lifestyle, versus changing their skills by being better engineers.

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