Someone posted something on LinkedIn recently debating whether Netflix is a tech company or a content company and it got me thinking, why does it have some many SWEs? I would have thought by now, the apps are basically in a steady state and in more of maintenance mode? Surely a video player doesn't need that much engineering after years of development? I get that new codecs come out every few years and perhaps Android or iOS has some new APIs but what else?
Netflix is basically the size of a directorate for most major tech companies
Netflix’s streaming is basically flawless so whatever they’re doing is working. And they have zero risk tolerance. If it breaks the whole world knows about it in a matter of minutes to hours.
Don't you host everything on AWS?
They do host everything on AWS but Netflix has built their own CDN on top of it that allows it to tolerate any AWS issues/outages. It works incredibly well.
For a post titled "Why does Netflix have so many SWEs?", you'd expect OP to at least provide the headcount. Anyways, they do have a significant team working on ML/AI solutions like recommendations.
And still I don't like those recommendations.
I’ve never seen any recommendation to be that bad honestly. I’d think I am a fairly common user, M 30s likes action, spy, humor movies. How’s that so hard?
🤫 If you ask questions like this, 75% of SWE and 90% of managers, TPM won't have jobs.
Is Amazon basically a retail store?
Cloud is big revenue tho
Not really... They're a logistics and tech infrastructure firm that most people think is a retail store. .. The retail business was just a test run for renting logistics services to others..... Kind of like the website was a test run for renting out compute/infrastructure (aka AWS)
There is also a lot of custom integration work with studios and artists to use their platform. It’s not like studios will upload videos via FTP to Netflix. A lot of software behind the scenes It’s not like Disney where all the content producers are in-house
Nice handle ero-sennin
Before I actually started working, I could see myself having this question. I don’t understand how someone on blind can have this question
And yet not a day goes by without threads about major tech companies being able to fire 80% like Twitter.
You have a weird definition of “so many.” Netflix operates with a sliver of the engineers other companies of that size do. Still less than 3,000 the last time I looked.
Shit are they hiring?
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If it's a content company it's a bad one 😂