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Utter incompetence from senior leadership at Netflix. They had so much time to prepare for this.


I want to index everyone sneering at this situation and never work with any of them.


Eh, punching up, while still punching, doesn’t seem that distasteful to me.


There's no up. There's just punching, and making excuses for punching.


yep, especially knowing this isn't their first rodeo... 18 months since https://time.com/6272470/love-is-blind-live-reunion-netflix/

> But the real indicator of how much Sunday’s screw-up ends up hurting Netflix will be the success or failure of its next live program—and the next one, and the one after that, and so on. There’s no longer any room for error. Because, like the newly minted spouses of Love Is Blind, a streaming service can never stop working to justify its subscribers’ love. Now, Netflix has a lot of broken trust to rebuild.


To be honest, it's really hard to understand what Fleak does. For a minute, I thought it's a low-code way of deploying microservices/API endpoints. Maybe one end to end use case would help


I propose line managers be on-call 3-4 days a week so they continue to get that high and actually be useful :-)


I mean it's not like they're claiming to be Gartner..who by the way, gasp, do paid marketing for "fair" rankings.


Such an amazing show and kudos to Netflix!


How would you know?

It premieres in 3 days? (March 21, 2024)

Or you were at sxsw? In which case you mean the first episode was amazing?


It's likely you're sharing it across households/relatives. Not sure I'd go to such lengths for something that costs as much as a Chipotle burrito tbh


By traveling you are sharing netflix?


And I'm sure they would love for you to roll over, too. Come on, man.


Describing engineers as "fat and happy" is really derogatory. Their spend on tech employees is a tiny fraction of total content spend. Also, an even tinier fraction of what they spend on services like AWS. If they want to cut costs, there's a ton more low hanging fruit than letting people go. In fact, revenue per employee is the highest compared to other FAANG


If you look at the complaints about Netflix, most of them relate to content, not tech. This suggests that they've under-invested in content, and over-invested in tech.


Disagree, total content spend the last 4 years has been ~18bn/year compared to ~500m/yr on all employee R&D. That's shows there's a content quality problem not a content underinvestment.


According to their latest annual statement (2022), they spent 2.7 billion USD on "Technology & Development". Where are you getting the 500 million figure?

https://s22.q4cdn.com/959853165/files/doc_financials/2022/ar... page 23


I think the tech side of Netflix is great, they do a great job. But it’s simply not what makes money for Netflix anymore and they are extra-ordinarily well paid.


Is this the right way to expose that hypocrisy though? If his goal was to truly bring society together and eradicate hate, I'm sure someone as smart as Adams could expose it in a more amicable and less polarizing way.


It isn't, and it's unfortunate. It plays into--rather than healing--racial tension.


How quickly the tide turns in our industry..from massages at your desk to sitting on each other's laps. Hey they could perhaps still continue the massage to each other though.


Microsoft HQ has an awesome library. Every big tech should have such a space for some quiet reading


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