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Other Companies Should Have To Read This Internal Netflix Presentation

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I hate to be that guy, but I liked this more yesterday when it was linking the presentation instead of techcrunch: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=740524

You know, I was hesitant to click through, assuming TechCrunch picked up another hacker's internal docs and they were slinging secret strategy around again.

But it's actually just an extraordinary layout of their culture.

And it's available on their website: http://www.netflix.com/Jobs

(Yeah, I was inspired to investigate.)

And despite being publicly available on their site, slides 94 and 97 are tagged "Confidential" at the bottom.

I wish my boss would read it... But if I'll send it to him, it will create tension

Stars have strong opinions, so send the signal. And work hard to become a star :-P

I once sent the director of a company where I worked an article about working from home (the article mentioned how IBM does this) and got a snotty reply.

He also refused to allow me to take unpaid leave.

It's amazing how some managers think that working from home or taking more than 15 days of leave (unpaid at that) is an undeserved luxury and that they'd rather have you less productive, but in your seat at work.

This was at a 5 person company.

> This was at a 5 person company.

I was nodding and thinking "that's not unusual" until I got to this part. Wow.

Move to Europe! Most countries have ~ 20-25 (paid) vacation days a year..

More on topic: I like how netflix seems to threat it's employees as grown-ups, instead of little children that have to be watched every second.