As someone who’s worked at Netflix, I feel the whole philosophy is a little too glorified. The first thing you have to remember is that Netflix pays a lot (a l

As someone who’s worked at Netflix, I feel the whole philosophy is a little too glorified. The first thing you have to remember is that Netflix pays a lot (a lot lot). The idea of expecting high performance only works when it’s accompanied with substantial benefits. Second, Netflix does “fire fast” but not in the sense most people interpret it. New hires are given enough scaffolding to succeed. It’s not like other companies where they expect people to come onboard as revolutionaries and create impact in a month. Third, high performance isn’t a constant like most people pretend it is. Netflix has managers who understand this fact and support their employees when things go down. They aren’t ruthless maniacs who fire you the first week you take a breather. And most managers who try to copy this elsewhere, miss that point.