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<blockquote data-quote="RareBreed" data-source="post: 9145445" data-attributes="member: 6945590"><p>Disclaimer: I worked at Netflix on the engineering side 2018-2019</p><p></p><p>All I will say is this as a kind of "character witness": management has some pretty big egos on their shoulders. I recall when I suggested (pre-pandemic) that Netflix should allow people to work from home, because there are talented engineers who are unwilling or unable to move to Los Gatos CA. I was told that "only the best and brightest work for us", and that being able to have water cooler chats and hash stuff out on a white board were absolutely necessary. I even later had someone from HR visit me about why I suggested that (touchy eh?).</p><p></p><p>They have a concept of Freedom and Responsibility (or F&R as we called it), that <em>in theory</em> means each individual contributor gets to choose what to work on, but there's also a responsibility in terms of dollars and cents. Every decision made should be backed up with how you are affecting the bottom line of the company. On one hand, they wouldn't bat an eyelash if you created a small Presto query service that could cost 10 grand a year, but if you wrote too much documentation, they would tell you that's a job for a Tech Writer, not an engineer, and that our time (as an engineer) is money they are paying for.</p><p></p><p>Although this culture slide deck is no longer used, it still permeated (circa 2019) Netflix culture and mind-think</p><p>[MEDIA=slideshare]1798664[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>Also, take my experience with a grain of salt. I worked in an unusual org of the engineering side, and also the engineering side in Los Gatos, and Singapore was (is?) different from the creatives/executives in Los Angeles. I did get to meet Reed Hastings twice, once at a company Q&A session with about 20 other people, and another time at one of our quarterly company lunches where he sat down next to me and my team and we chatted (non-business) for about 15-20 minutes. He seems like a nice and down to earth kind of guy, but of all the managers I directly worked with, I really only liked and respected 2 of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RareBreed, post: 9145445, member: 6945590"] Disclaimer: I worked at Netflix on the engineering side 2018-2019 All I will say is this as a kind of "character witness": management has some pretty big egos on their shoulders. I recall when I suggested (pre-pandemic) that Netflix should allow people to work from home, because there are talented engineers who are unwilling or unable to move to Los Gatos CA. I was told that "only the best and brightest work for us", and that being able to have water cooler chats and hash stuff out on a white board were absolutely necessary. I even later had someone from HR visit me about why I suggested that (touchy eh?). They have a concept of Freedom and Responsibility (or F&R as we called it), that [I]in theory[/I] means each individual contributor gets to choose what to work on, but there's also a responsibility in terms of dollars and cents. Every decision made should be backed up with how you are affecting the bottom line of the company. On one hand, they wouldn't bat an eyelash if you created a small Presto query service that could cost 10 grand a year, but if you wrote too much documentation, they would tell you that's a job for a Tech Writer, not an engineer, and that our time (as an engineer) is money they are paying for. Although this culture slide deck is no longer used, it still permeated (circa 2019) Netflix culture and mind-think [MEDIA=slideshare]1798664[/MEDIA] Also, take my experience with a grain of salt. I worked in an unusual org of the engineering side, and also the engineering side in Los Gatos, and Singapore was (is?) different from the creatives/executives in Los Angeles. I did get to meet Reed Hastings twice, once at a company Q&A session with about 20 other people, and another time at one of our quarterly company lunches where he sat down next to me and my team and we chatted (non-business) for about 15-20 minutes. He seems like a nice and down to earth kind of guy, but of all the managers I directly worked with, I really only liked and respected 2 of them. [/QUOTE]
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