> They did get a slight improvement Not only did the winning entry only bring in a slight improvement, and the payout followed suit, but they never actually us

> They did get a slight improvement Not only did the winning entry only bring in a slight improvement, and the payout followed suit, but they never actually used the winning algorithm. Netflix's big winner for this contest, unplanned as it was, was their own recruiters and dev teams: Netflix became a company great developers wanted to work for because it cares about "hard problems".