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Re:Working at Netflix by calibraxis on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @04:54PM (#8919911)
Yes, I never trust what company people say about their workplaces, unless: I know them, it's in private and they have sharply critical minds. (Usually called "disgruntled".)

- If I don't know them, they have little incentive to tell me the truth.

- If it's not private, then selection bias: glowing affirmations (or pseudo-critique: "Yeah we have our problems, but...") will obviously be the voices we hear. Not only are those maybe rewarded, but cold enough critiques are swiftly punished. For obvious reasons.

- If they're not sharply critical types, they miss what should be obvious, because they drink the koolaid or are just plain fine with whatever silliness.

(Why the emphasis on critique? Because one's job is solving problems, and real companies have such egregious problems. I'll accept fairly wrong critique in preference to correct bragging, because critique's usually missing and at least something not-too-wrong is a string to pull on during research.)

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Re:Working at Netflix by poopsintub on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @07:06PM (#8920604)
Critical type here. There's something missing from his review. The company seems to fire people on the spot for little mistakes, from what I've read above. There has to be a lot more dirt, he just hasn't encountered yet.
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Re:Working at Netflix by cldellow on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @10:45PM (#8921333)
Generous severances (of the sort that might accompany the dirt) usually come with a generous non-disclosure agreement, so that makes sense.
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