> You have a seat in company for what you will do, not what you have done. that's fine, but netflix pays for this privilege by high salary from the get go. If

> You have a seat in company for what you will do, not what you have done. that's fine, but netflix pays for this privilege by high salary from the get go. If you worked for a startup, i assume the salary isn't going to be as high. Instead, you'd expect to be paid in equity. So by firing someone as soon as they're done (meaning their future equity vesting is lost now), they lose a lot of what would've been theirs had the company's long term potential been great as a result of their work.