What Netflix does: Netflix offers a seamless streaming service for award-winning shows, movies, documentaries, stand-up comedy, anime, and cartoons on devices with an internet connection.
Mission: Netflix aims to ensure global entertainment with the diverse array of videos they provide access to.
Size and Presence: Netflix currently employs around 9,400 workers in 5 locations within the United States.
Best Known For: Netflix boasts a diverse collection of movies to please people with various movie tastes with on-demand access.
The good bits: Netflix encourages diversity and freedom giving employees a chance to be innovative and expressive of their skills.
The not-so-good bits: To keep up with their large audience, working at Netflix could be quite demanding with employees having to work extra hours a few times.
Founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in 1997, Netflix began as an internet-driven subscription service and mailed DVDs to subscribers upon demand. It offered unrestricted access to DVD rentals with its users free to return the rentals anytime they desired.
In 2000, Netflix took its business approach up a notch adding specialized recommendation systems to predict the market for discs of such nature.
For the first time, Netflix surpassed one million users in 2003 and launched profile features in 2005. This feature allowed users to create a personalized selection of movie titles that interest them. On-demand streaming became a Netflix thing in 2007 allowing members to enjoy titles that interest them on the internet. From this point, the rise of Netflix was meteoric and so were the changes made to suit the user experience.
In 2021, Netflix surpassed over 200 million subscribers becoming a household name in households across the globe. It continues to implement changes that make its experience seamless and offers users a chance to tailor their viewing experience.
Two words are synonymous with Netflix culture. These words are; freedom and responsibility. They form the basis of the culture at Netflix and translate to a successful business and satisfied employees.
Netflix supports the ambition of its employees while ensuring their honesty and that they are accountable for the choices they make. Principles like judgment, communication, impact, curiosity, innovation, courage, passion, honesty, and selflessness are embedded in ensuring the freedom and responsibility of its employees.
Every working day at Netflix presents a friendly vibe that resonates with accountability and a selfless desire to be of help to everyone. Excellent support in a close-knit team makes even the latest employee feel right at home.
As a tech giant by every margin, Netflix looks beyond just personal qualifications but how graduate or intern qualifications fit into their work process.
The first aspect of Netflix's recruitment process requires applicants to submit their tailored professional resumes. Graduates and interns whose resumes and profiles fit into the company's culture are contacted by a recruiter. Applicants have the company's core values delivered for brief studying.
The slide show containing Netflix's core values is to prepare graduates and interns for the technical phone interview. Applicants can choose to make the technical phone interview an assignment or could be completed it on the spot. Graduate or intern applicants who excel in the phone interview are requested to participate in the on-site interview. The aspects of these interviews are; a technical-cultural questioning exercise and interactive sessions with top-ranking officials.
After graduate and intern hopefuls complete all recruitment processes, hired candidates are contacted by the hiring manager. They can then discuss the details of their roles and when they're expected to resume.
Working at Netflix not only improves the technical knowledge of employees but also improves social intelligence as everyone gets a chance to be themselves. Netflix allows employees to explore new areas of their skills whenever they feel like they need a change. They trust that employees should grow how they want to and they provide a platform that allows such growth.
Transparency across the board also helps to clarify communications between directors and employees as they provide advice on how employees can thrive in their respective roles.
Entry-level remunerations at Netflix start at $145,828 annually while interns earn around $52,234 per year.
Netflix holds environmental sustainability dearly at the core of its operations. They are utilizing science-supported carbon reduction methods to reduce their greenhouse gas release to zero.
Netflix also claims to invest in natural projects that keep the atmosphere pure, protect wildlife, and help maintain water purity. They also finance projects that'll help revert areas affected by CO2 emissions to normalcy.
One of the more recent controversies in the streaming giant's history is its alleged manipulation of search results. Upon the release of a movie that welcomed backlash, it was alleged that Netflix deliberately used its algorithm to hide a movie from viewers. While Netflix claimed that not all movies generate the same promotion, the trust in Netflix’s algorithm was certainly reduced