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Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Netflix for 1 year
May 11, 2018
Los Gatos, California
5.0
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Pros

I might be biased since I recently joined, but I am using my fake name, so I have no reason to make stuff up:

  • Founder by Stanford CSMS graduate, so it's a tech company by heart.
  • Amazing tech (it's not just "microservice," although Netflix was one of the first companies that introduced that level of scale).
  • What's even better: each team can use its own tech, whatever is the latest and greatest to solve a particular problem.
  • Netflix is growing like crazy, not just in terms of revenue, but in terms of product and business cases.
  • The interview process focused heavily on the culture, which means you'll most likely work with the amazing people surrounding you. The environment encourages you to be a better version of yourself, which is far from the case in many places and often the opposite of that.
Cons

If you are looking for a stable job for the next 5-10 years, are in your late 40s, and don't constantly want to learn something new, and you want to work 9-5, this might not be the job for you. But everyone at the company is very transparent about it ahead of time.

Advice to Management

Keep the innovation. Since the company is so great, make sure they are not afraid to innovate and not afraid to make mistakes and lose the amazing job as a result.

I don't know if it's the case, but I can see how it could possibly be when people really like to keep their jobs, no matter what.

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