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That's a very high number for a full time position. I wonder what engineers actually do at Netflix? Seems like most of the work would be behind them... I feel

That's a very high number for a full time position. I wonder what engineers actually do at Netflix? Seems like most of the work would be behind them... I feel like a lot of big tech companies these days pay engineers to sound smart rather than for doing actual work. The interview processes at these companies would certainly indicate that.

chrisco255 9y ago
Behind them? Like, Netflix is through, no need to expand it's offerings? No need to improve it's UX? Introduce new features?
- nihonde 9y ago
  Their front-end apps are awful, and wildly inconsistent from platform to platform. Streaming performance is best in class, as far as I can tell, though. I guess their focus is on the latter.
empath75 9y ago
Check out spinnaker.
luckydude 9y ago
Stuff like filling a 100Gbit pipe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15367421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15367421 I think that's some studly work, so much so that I'm sitting at the FreeBSD conference at Netflix right now. I'm retired but some people got me interested in this stuff and I asked netflix for some hardware to look at numa performance issues. I showed up and they just handed me a 2U server, 2 Haswell sockets, 14 cpus (unthreaded) per socket, 256GB, 26TB of SSD. Neat machine :) So far, from what I've seen, Netflix seems like they are close to what they describe on their culture page (that's been linked on this page) but it's early on for me. I can say that playing with the hardware, learning about the issues, talking to people about kernel work has got me pretty pumped. Fun problems, fun people.