Does anybody know what the reasons of Netflix usually firing employees are? Is it because of continuous bad performance? Or poor cultural fit? A cousin of my gf moved to Netflix this January and he has been hearing about somebody getting fired every month. He even received email with such news. Does Netflix has kind of an unofficial policy to fire certain amount of people yearly?
Organizational pivots as well
Most commonly: You could be a poor performer. You could clash with your manager. Your role could be considered not needed any more.
Watching Netflix at work.
And chilling too?
HBO was willing to throw seasons upon seasons at GoT. The writers quit to chase Star Wars money and because the source material ran out long ago
Dude... I'm not sure if you're trolling or ignorant Netflix has this 100 page culture deck that's in the public domain for everyone to read. In it, it says if you're average, you're getting a severance package. In the deck, it also lists a thougbt exercise, if your employee comes to you with a better job offer, would you aggressively try to prevent the employee from leaving by offering higher pay or promo. If you do not think that the employee is worth saving in the hypothetical though exercise, then the employee should be fired. Netflix's entire culture is built on firing people quickly and churning out lower performers. Some people love it and others call it toxic. It's definitely not for everyone
Ineffective hiring loops and bad management
Because you don't perform. Honestly 100% no idea what the big issue is here, the same thing happens in every other company in the world. The bar is nowhere near as high as folklore makes it. Is the same as most half decent companies. I used to work twice as hard in the previous startup I was in
How’s wlb in general? I know that you should be responsible for setting expectations with manager and deliver stuffs which doesn’t necessarily require long hours. But in general how many hours do people put in?
No idea, it changes drastically person to person. Some people work 10am to 4:00pm and kill it, some work occasionally in the evening. We honestly don't measure input the only thing people care is output.
Everyone I know that was fired from Netflix was because they pissed off or upstaged their manager. The severance package has a nice NDA attached so people keep their mouths shut. Most were top performers on their teams as well.
In good companies, your job is build a good product. In bad companies, your job is to make your manager look good.
No matter what the culture deck says, these are the reasons I have seen personally: - Office politics. Recently a very strong and performing director was fired because he didn't play along the nonsense re-org - Disagreements with you manager, director or an old-timer IC with strong connections to your manager and/or director - You are smart IC and actually trying to improve things in the team. This makes C players (most common at Netflix) nervous about their jobs and they manage to get you fired on some hypothetical culture fit issue. Netflix culture deck is no longer true, it might have been true once upon a time with like 100 engineers. Now we are more than a thousand and culture deck actually hurts in hiring great talent.
I thought that the culture deck was a fantastic read. I had complete respect for what they were trying to set but absolutely didn't want to be in that potentially toxic environment. I think at the time, NFLX paid a much higher base than any of the usual FAANG folks and not by a small margin.
politics is the usual reason
Could you elaborate a little? Politics is everywhere but Netflix is the only company which fires employees so aggressively. I could be wrong though.
it's the culture, top-down search past threads on Blind for many ex-Netflixers