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>Their engineering team universally is happy and extremely productive and I think it makes a lot of sense.

Who's word would you take for it?

Anonymous reviews on Glassdoor don't seem to agree with that.

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See my comment on Glassdoor reviews (in this same thread): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537924

I prefer listening to the opinions of the half dozens Netflix engineers and finance employees that I know personally rather than anonymous reviews.

The opinions of 6 people, with known relationships instead of being randomly sampled, out of the population of Netflix developers, is incredibly statistically insignificant.

So is listening to the websites that is known to be biased towards disgruntled employees and those that fail the interviews.

I would say statistically biased instead of insignificant. Presumably OP associates with very driven people who happen to do well in competitive environments. Glassdoor suffers from the opposite where 100% of people with a grudge go to complain while a smaller percentage of happy people go to write a review.

Opinions of people I know and consider to be friends are of far more importance to me than that of anonymous randos on the internet.

I recently turned down a job offer at a company based upon friend's feedback and went to a lower paying job that had a lot of negative reviews on glass door. So far, at a month in, I havent seen anything backing the negative reviews. I'm happy at this point, and my commute is the best I've ever had. 15-20 minutes door to door.

Great, that is enough for you. That is meaningless to anyone else, who does not know you.

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