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> If you get a FAANG job you need to think like a professional athlete. S This is what Netflix has always been advocating for. Reid Hoffman also wrote the book
by hintymad 4mo ago
> If you get a FAANG job you need to think like a professional athlete. S
This is what Netflix has always been advocating for. Reid Hoffman also wrote the book The Alliance, in which he argues that employees and employers are allies. When they are aligned, they work together. When not, they part ways.
I find that these two views are realistic and we can use them to guide our actions.
- javawizard 4mo ago> This is what Netflix has always been advocating for. Reid Hoffman also wrote the book The Alliance I think you might have Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn) mixed up with Reed Hastings (founder of Netflix). :)
- hintymad 4mo agoMy bad. I was talking about both. The Netflix culture, and the book written by Hoffman. Hopefully I spelled their names right.
- javawizard 4mo agoOh! You did. I just saw the two in adjacent sentences and assumed you were referring to the Netflix CEO and had mixed up his name. Nothing to see here, move along...
- criddell 4mo agoI just realized that Netflix’s Reed Hastings is the same Reed Hastings that wrote Purify - the excellent memory leak tool that was a pretty big deal back in the 90’s.