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> If I'm just some keyboard puncher, I could give a fuck about what is best for the company. Exactly. The one-sided sense of loyalty implicitly demanded in th

> If I'm just some keyboard puncher, I could give a fuck about what is best for the company. Exactly. The one-sided sense of loyalty implicitly demanded in this article is astounding. Fuck that shit.

Godel_unicode 10y ago
It sounds to me like this is a market where Netflix buys loyalty not with loyalty in return but with cash and "A" colleagues. As long as they're upfront about it, that seems fair to me.
- NathanKP 10y ago
  Exactly. Netflix has a massive culture problem. That's why they have to pay engineers 300k per year to work there.
  - sokoloff 10y ago
    I have to say that I immediately loved the Netflix culture deck when it first went public. If that's truly reflective of their culture, I'm sure it's not for everyone, but it appeals to many.
    - NathanKP 10y ago
      Yeah it is appealing on some levels, and it would be interesting to work there for six months to a year. I wouldn't want to work there for very long though. It would be a nice place to work your ass off for a while with other talented people and save up tons of money, and then when you inevitably burn out and get fired you can take a year off and relax.
- Spooky23 10y ago
  It will work out as long as the the good times roll and the core cadre of decision makers stay lucky. One misstep, the whole place implodes. It's interesting, in that you need to look at Netflix more like a real estate developer or construction company than a tech player. I went to school with a kid whose dad was a multimillionaire real estate developer dude. Then a project got delayed by some external factor, which killed his cash flow. And the, and the economy shifted and killed his line of credit. Result: multimillionaire->multithousandaire.
  - erikpukinskis 10y ago
    I don't think they have to stay lucky, I think they have to stay calm. The problem is, often when the luck runs out, the calm does too. Amidst panic people seek refuge in tradition, not finding it a place like Netflix could collapse you're right. But I don't see why these rules couldn't work in a contracting revenue scenario, as long as you keep cutting staffing levels where they need to be to keep a runway. That too makes it hard to stay calm though. The severance policy helps.

> If I'm just some keyboard puncher, I could give a fuck about what is best for the company. Exactly. The one-sided sense of loyalty implicitly demanded in this article is astounding. Fuck that shit.

Godel_unicode 10y ago

It sounds to me like this is a market where Netflix buys loyalty not with loyalty in return but with cash and "A" colleagues. As long as they're upfront about it, that seems fair to me.

NathanKP 10y ago
Exactly. Netflix has a massive culture problem. That's why they have to pay engineers 300k per year to work there.
- sokoloff 10y ago
  I have to say that I immediately loved the Netflix culture deck when it first went public. If that's truly reflective of their culture, I'm sure it's not for everyone, but it appeals to many.
  - NathanKP 10y ago
    Yeah it is appealing on some levels, and it would be interesting to work there for six months to a year. I wouldn't want to work there for very long though. It would be a nice place to work your ass off for a while with other talented people and save up tons of money, and then when you inevitably burn out and get fired you can take a year off and relax.
Spooky23 10y ago
It will work out as long as the the good times roll and the core cadre of decision makers stay lucky. One misstep, the whole place implodes. It's interesting, in that you need to look at Netflix more like a real estate developer or construction company than a tech player. I went to school with a kid whose dad was a multimillionaire real estate developer dude. Then a project got delayed by some external factor, which killed his cash flow. And the, and the economy shifted and killed his line of credit. Result: multimillionaire->multithousandaire.
- erikpukinskis 10y ago
  I don't think they have to stay lucky, I think they have to stay calm. The problem is, often when the luck runs out, the calm does too. Amidst panic people seek refuge in tradition, not finding it a place like Netflix could collapse you're right. But I don't see why these rules couldn't work in a contracting revenue scenario, as long as you keep cutting staffing levels where they need to be to keep a runway. That too makes it hard to stay calm though. The severance policy helps.