No Longer Magical But Still Great
No Longer Magical But Still Great
- In general, your colleagues are going to be really good people, with excellent skills.
- Dissent and candor are encouraged.
- If you don't want to play the golden handcuffs / RSU game, Netflix's "one big base pay" can be an attractive option.
- Considered a "cool" place to work at by most outsiders.
- Becoming less differentiated from other big tech firms, sold as becoming "grown up"
- "Levels" were introduced to depress pay for, and encourage voluntary attrition among long-tenured engineers.
- Information access is getting more and more closed off.
- "Freedom and responsibility" got abused by some, leading to it being replaced by "people over process."
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I applied through an employee referral and completed the phone screen and five onsite interviews. The interviewers were professional and respectful throughout — definitely a highlight of the process. The questions were more open-ended than expected,
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I was interviewed by a recruiter and then had a technical interview with the hiring manager. The hiring manager gave me three coding challenges, and I answered them decently with a lot of discussion, sharing my thought process. He responded in a very
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I should have read interviews here before I agreed to an in-person interview. I saw a Craigslist ad and sent in a resume, not really expecting to hear back. A Netflix recruiter called; I called back and spoke for 15 minutes. A few days later, I spoke
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New York, New York, United StatesJuly 1, 2025I applied through an employee referral and completed the phone screen and five onsite interviews. The interviewers were professional and respectful throughout — definitely a highlight of the process. The questions were more open-ended than expected,
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Norristown, Pennsylvania, United StatesJune 1, 2018I was interviewed by a recruiter and then had a technical interview with the hiring manager. The hiring manager gave me three coding challenges, and I answered them decently with a lot of discussion, sharing my thought process. He responded in a very
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Los Gatos, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2012I should have read interviews here before I agreed to an in-person interview. I saw a Craigslist ad and sent in a resume, not really expecting to hear back. A Netflix recruiter called; I called back and spoke for 15 minutes. A few days later, I spoke
