Is it a myth or reality? They have a full culture page explaining their strange culture. Their youtube channel about culture seems scripted.
Their firing culture is definitely cutthroat, judging by blind posts from Netflix folks.
Sounds like, “Hire Slow, Fire Fast” which many people would say is just the right thing to do for a company like Netflix.
Think about all the stupid shit people say about Uber on here, and recall how much of that turned out to actually be true. There's your answer.
Na it's true. I know folks at Netflix who openly admit it.
Admit what?
That their culture is cutthroat
As everything, it depends on which org and team you work on. I don’t see that happening around me, specially at IC Level. People will say stupid shit here, but then ask yourself: is this person still work there or maybe was let go? Maybe that person had a bad experience on the team. Unfortunately, blind posts and bad experiences from ex employees created this sense of you will get fired in a week and you can see new hires asking these questions everywhere and living with this fear of getting fired at any time. In my experience, if you perform good and have good communication skills, you can thrive here.
Most cases I’ve read so far is of people who were thriving (according to themselves) until there is a reorg or reshuffle and the new manager doesn’t like them for some reason. Before they know it, they are out the door with no warning. It comes as a shock to all of them it seems, and the ones on visa get totally screwed.
Difficult to know, as you mentioned, people thrive according to themselves, they might not. Also, it could be that they are total jerks... if you are smart and a jerk, most likely someone will raise the flag and you will be let go. But that’s on my experience, can’t speak for every org/team at Netflix.
Not cutthroat, but definitely filled with incompetent arrogance.
At Netflix, if you get a bad remark on a peer review, are you fired?
It has happened before. Sometimes very visibly.
Blind comments tend towards negativity because most people come on here to look into switching companies/careers.
It’s a myth