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Re:At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsett... by dunpeal on Thursday October 25, 2018 @06:14PM (#18305059)
You can get similar comp at Google and Facebook, to name just two examples. Why should I choose Netflix if I can get the same pay there, minus the BS?

Also, I won't have to live in Los Gatos.

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Re:At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsett... by geodel on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:37PM (#18306347)
Huh, immediately then someone will complain Google is evil as it working with Chinese government and FB is evil because it is working Russians who meddled with US elections.

Infact I wouldn't know of many companies who can't be branded evil or full of BS for some or other reason.

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Re:At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsett... by throwaway359087 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @06:38PM (#18305223)
Don’t choose them. It sucks I just said that. But working at Google or Facebook is totally different. Netflix has a couple hundred engineers. They aren’t involved in selling ad funded content. I wouldn’t want to work at google or facebook
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Re:At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsett... by obstacle1 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @08:23PM (#18305810)
Netflix had 5,700 employees in 2017, and only a 'couple hundred' of those were engineers?
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Re:At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsett... by throwaway359087 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @11:39PM (#18306605)
Yes
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Re:At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsett... by jedberg on Friday October 26, 2018 @02:07AM (#18307114)
I think your stats are off. When I left Netflix in 2015, we already had 1000+ engineers. By 2017 it was probably closer to 2000.
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Re:At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsett... by turtlecloud on Friday October 26, 2018 @05:18AM (#18307801)
So if 2000 eng, they are paying 300k on avg on the low end. That is like 600 mil/ year???? Omg
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Re:At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsett... by Aeolun on Friday October 26, 2018 @06:41AM (#18308097)
180m subscribers x $10 a month = 1.8B per month in income. I think they can deal with it...
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