Sincere question. N is right there in FAANG. But really, why? Haven’t seen Netflix innovate at all outside of the “skip intro” button. Recommendations are crap. There are half a dozen equally good services (Disney, Prime, Peacock etc). Once upon a time their JavaScript work was top notch, but what cutting edge tech work happens there today? #tech #netflix
It should have been FAAMG in the first place. Dont know how NFLX came to this.
Netflix pays a lot of hard money. More than Google.
AWS could go down, but NFLX won't. Their infra is top notch
For a long time Netflix was running on AWS. Part of it still does I think. Also, infra to do what, stream movies? It’s a horizontal scalability problem and not very complex if you have enough hardware. I’m sure they’re optimizing it, but heck, Disney figured it out and I haven’t seen an outage yet even with Disney already at half of Netflix’s scale.
Let us know what you are smoking splunk. Netflix has been affected by almost all the aws outages lolz
Has nothing to do with technology or prestige. Faang was coined exclusively due tech stock performance. Good stock also meant good tc so attracted talent. That's about it
this type of question shows that you don't understand systems design.
Lol I would probably run circles around you in a sys design contest all day long. But seriously, Is their system design more complex than Disney for some reason?
In a forum where it’s TC of GTFO, a company is solely judged by salaries offered. N has been at par with others with FAAG, but now it’s true for many more. FAANG has just stayed as a catchy acronym. In terms of innovation or salaries, it doesn’t imply anything, except that it still manages to massage small egos, providing a false sense of pride, and illusion, of being smarter than rest, when actually in long run one gets hurt in terms of reaching their true potential by buying into the golden handcuffs.
No disagreement about N, but what’s up with G, OP? What has G actually innovated on recently? Decades past, G made game-changing innovations: Maps, Earth, Voice, Gmail and Docs paved the way for powerful, browser-based productivity apps, Chrome, Chrome OS, Android, Lens, Translate, … Recently? Can’t think of a single thing. Is everyone at MTV just keeping the lights on?
9 products with a billion plus monthly users. Each product becoming better each day with AI. Do you know how much better translate is today can last year? Also, New AI tech (MUM!) that immediately becomes industry standard as soon as it’s launched. Half of all ML/DS uses Google’s open source libraries. Do you know how many moonshots and bets Google has!?!
Node js, came out Google Chrome team open sourcing the V8 engine. Folks at chrome dev tools team released Puppeteer and later went over to Microsoft and made Playwright. Kubernetes came out of Google. Not to mention tensorflow, colab and all the ML stuff. The list goes on ... A lot of the web dev and ML landscape would look very different without Google innovation. You can also look at the other Alphabet subsidiaries doing cool stuff like Verily, Waymo and Wing to mention a few. Netflix on the other hand has lost content to Disney and increased subscription prices. They introduced games on the mobile app, which I personally haven't engaged much with. I feel like their experiments with interactive content were cool and could've evolved into something. Given we haven't seen too many of them, I guess the data didn't show them as promising.
For those questioning Netflix - just read about their CDN and buffering techs. If that is also nkt good enough, then read about their fault tolerant tech stacks and libraries. Hystrix was developed by them long ago and was a benchmark for fault tolerance. Even current best stacks like resilienc4j are built and inspired based on hystrix and circuit breaker made by Netflix. They just dont show off or go on pinging every candidate they can find on net. To some extend i agree Microsoft should be also in premium league. But for if anyone has to be kicked out then it should be amazon. Besides AWS(and agreed aws is doing great) they have nothing significant to contribute, even to open source also.
Also those sitting in google and having sense of pride that they are good, dude get a life. I cracked it without even studying much. And even challenged the hr and hiring committee for one round where they gave me lean review. They said these questions are designed by experts and interviewer is made aware of all possible solutions thay are efficient. I told them you have my code already in doc, go amd check it. After being challenged several times, the hiring committee gave it a look and voila!! They admitted they were wrong. My algorithm was just as giod, just that they could not figure out in first go! Hr was kind amd gentle and apologized for this and said this question will now be blacklisted and will not be given to anyone again. No one is god. Google is a pretty large firm. But before your ego goes very high, just remember 99.99% you will be a small fish in ocean whose contribution will be next to minimum. (FYI visa was also no boon for me, but it gave me a solid role and i was able to innovate and even filed a patent. But besides that they are stuck in ancient tech. And I am no longer in Visa. I switched becoz of low pay to some other company. But had offers from Amazon, google and 12 other companies. But chose a startup for my own growth. Not to boast the fact what my company is doing but to enhance what i am doing to bigger picture)
Dang bro, calm down. You’re the boss, we get it! The question is simply about lack of visible innovation at Netflix. Would it be better if I worked at a no name company and asked this question? Why getting so worked up?
Its just that i have huge respect for Netflix 😭. But their work culture is getting better bad that i will agree. Still i love them
Facts