Netflix of eight years ago rewarded real engineering work (I left then so I don't know how it is now). Metrics didn't really play a part in anything other than

Netflix of eight years ago rewarded real engineering work (I left then so I don't know how it is now). Metrics didn't really play a part in anything other than providing information to guide business decisions (like direction and success, not comp). Or more specifically, they used a lot of metrics to determine comp but they weren't individual, they were market metrics of how much it cost to get new people on board.