Great Company, Tough Culture, Great CEO
Netflix has continued to adapt their culture to broadly include more focus on diversity and inclusion. This has developed the work force and also helped bring a larger pool of candidates. There are still some pain points around hiring the right person for the right job. Fear is in the fabric of every employee and everyone knows that they have an expiration date. There are brilliant jerks but more jerks that are not brilliant in high-level roles. Netflix leans into risk with everything they do, which in most cases works extremely well. The hardest part of Netflix is that it becomes more important than anything else in your life so there is no work-life balance. If you can navigate through all of the entitlement, it can still be a good place to work until you can't anymore. The best thing about Netflix is the people, turnover is above 40%, which means that time is wasted on bringing in new employees instead of investing in existing ones.