Netflix

"Freedom & Responsibility" is a real thing, and is embraced by the entire company.

The culture deck is taken seriously and is a construct that everyone is constantly aligned around.

Active & helpful employee resource groups are present.

There are interesting problems to solve, an interesting industry, brilliant colleagues, and lots of insights.

Work/life balance is a real, attainable thing here.

Unlimited PTO is respected.

There is excellent pay.

Everyone has a proactive mindset and is always willing to reflect and iterate on "why" we are doing what we're doing.

If you yearn for that close-knit team feeling, you may not find it here depending on which team you wind up on. Everyone's awesome to work with, but outside of getting things done, it can be hard to feel a real sense of camaraderie. I think this is a by-product of having a culture of "Freedom & Responsibility," wherein the company isn't forcing initiatives and events and whatnot upon you, so if you want to do something with your team, it's really in your (and your team's) hands to get it done.

Since there's no strongly enforced standardization of technology stacks, they can be very disparate from team to team, which can lead to duplicate efforts or implementations that are too tightly coupled to their use case, making it hard to reuse much of what exists.

The LA office feels hectic.

I don't really have any advice. It's great to see our leaders leading by example and working hard to continue to improve (not preserve!) the culture here. It's very refreshing and makes me excited to go to work every day.