Netflix

You get paid 15% above market rate.

I was making 165k in my last company (150k base + 15-20% bonus) in a stress-free environment, and then one fine day I found an opening at Netflix which suited my profile.

I applied, gave the interview, and they offered me 180k total.

Like a fool, I jumped onboard.

I lost my job after 9 months and am now back in the market.

And yes, those 9 months were no less than delivering a baby.

Just after joining, I realized that the guy sitting right next to me was fired a few weeks ago.

As I spent more time, I realized most of the people around me were no more than a year old.

The work was too much, but I thought they were paying me more, so I worked hard at it.

Turns out I had two slight disagreements with a member in another team, and bammm... I was gone.

The company has a very simple philosophy: if things are not 100% perfect, fire and hire, rinse and repeat.

Don't make the mistake I made. Don't leave your stress-free environment for 10-15k, etc., because you are going to end up being fired the moment your performance falls below 100%.

Reed thinks he is doing a great job. I wonder, does he ever read the reviews here on Glassdoor?

The only problem is, these reviews are flooded by CS, so it's hard to read the real software engineer reviews.