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Netflix is renown for paying their engineers very well. I would be interested to know if Disney+ also pay such high salaries to attract the best?
by rosege 7y ago
Netflix is renown for paying their engineers very well. I would be interested to know if Disney+ also pay such high salaries to attract the best?
- ProfessorLayton 7y agoI interviewed with them and no, they do not pay all that well, and their recruiter was pretty upfront about disclosing that early in the process. Additionally, I've hired a candidate that had an offer in hand from Disney+ and we were easily able to outbid them, (I was at a non-FAANG company at the time)
- rosege 7y agoThanks I guess that answers my question.
- cookiecaper 7y agoDisney is notorious for paying below-market rates. There's a massive supply of naive vict--err, candidates-- sufficiently enamored with the idea of working at a well-loved cultural touchstone that they'll jump at the opportunity for almost any salary. It usually doesn't take too long for employees to be disabused of their childhood hopes and dreams, but it's often a very painful process, and there are always some diehards who never seem to be able to let go. I lived less than a mile from the Magic Kingdom for about four years and saw this process play out many times. Most people burn out and learn that maybe working on a boring business backend isn't that bad after all, but there's always a huge line of wide-eyed candidates eager to backfill. Companies that fit this profile never learn to treat employees well because, frankly, they don't have to. The same thing happens in games.
- null_vector 7y agoWhat were the offer amounts?
- zamalek 7y agoI also strongly doubt you can simply bootstrap a Netflix caliber development team, no matter how much you spend. I have no doubt that the people who came up with Disney+ had no concept of this.
- emmp 7y agoDisney acquired a team for this, BAMtech, which had successfully run the infrastructure for MLB, HBO Now, WWE, among others. Certainly none of those were near as large as this, but they should have had the experience to know what works without needing to bootstrap.
- echelon 7y agoYou don't need to pay a Netflix salary to build streaming video. I predict Netflix salaries will begin to erode over time.
- adrr 7y agoDirectvNow and MGo would beg to differ. Hulu should be much bigger considering their catalog but their app is terrible to point of being almost unusable.