Netflix CEO Reed Hastings reportedly routinely performs a 'keeper test,' and used it to fire his product chief and longt
According to The Wall Street Journal, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings routinely uses a "keeper test" to evaluate employees, and he is "unencumbered by emotion." Managers are encouraged to perform the test, in which they ask themselves whether they would fight to keep an employee. Hastings even used it to fire Netflix's chief product officer and his close friend, Neil Hunt, last year. "I would not have chosen to move on at that particular moment, but you have to separate the emotion from the logic," Hunt told the Journal. But this company culture has left some executives uneasy, and according to the Journal, they fear for their jobs every day. https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-ceo-reed-hastings-used-keeper-test-to-fire-product-chief-2018-10
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Ladies and gentlemen this company loses billions of dollars. Remember that.
I did this keeper test to my Netflix subscription years back and got rid of it.. thanks Reed!
People are dropping Facebook in droves. Thanks keeper test!
EA would regularly terminate the bottom 10% of their employees based on performance reviews. Think they used to hire fodder just to insulate themselves from termination.
Lol.
Does board members apply the keeper test to the CEO?
They absolutely should. I would fight to keep Reed - he’s done great.
Does shareholders apply the keeper test to the board members? Maybe fire them all.