Quite severe 'dismissal' is done in Netflix

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Netflix employs more than 6000 people in total, including regular and part-time employees. Whether it is a company that is growing rapidly, its corporate culture seems to be quite severe, Wall Streel Journal interviewed more than 70 incumbent and former employees in total, and dismissed such as "ruthless" The actual situation that is being done is exposed.

At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-netflix-radical-transparency-and-blunt-firings-unsettle-the-ranks-1540497174

One of Netflix's corporate cultures can be called "high transparency". One example is that all employees can view information such as the number of subscribers in each country, the number of viewers of contents, contract conditions with productions, and so on. In addition, if it is an officer, we can check the salary of all employees. Regarding the viewing of salary, various opinions were issued that "People who feel an awkwardness will come out by knowing the difference" and "It will be a material to work harder," according to Reed Hastings CEO Although he tried to be able to view it, he said that he was rejected by an officer as expected.

"Transparency" is thorough even in "retirement / dismissal of people", Netflix seems to express "Explain your decision at public place where colleagues are located" as "sunshined / sunshining" , Multiple "Sunshine" are being done, and a number of cases of severe dismissal have been reported.

One of the dismissed cases is from Mr. Jonathan Friedland who served as external public relations. Mr. Friedland joined Netflix in February 2011 and has been in the position of "Chief Communication Officer" since 2012 . However, since I used " N words " at the PR conference and three months later I also used N words in a conversation with a black employee in the Human Resources Department, I will receive a de facto retirement recommendation from Hastings CEO It was. At this time, Hastings sent a message to everyone in the company explaining why Mr. Friedland left out, and how much N words should be sensitive to usage.

The full text is posted on the Hollywood Reporter for the e-mail sent by Hastings' sunshine.

Jonathan Friedland Fired at Netflix After Using N - Word in Meeting | Hollywood Reporter
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jonathan-friedland-exits-netflix-1122675

The case of Mr. Neil Hunt who was the product chief executive is very simple. Originally a best friend of Hastings CEO who was a member of the company since the start of Netflix and helped create algorithms to support viewers' selection of programming, while Netflix's business expanded overseas, 2017 In July my job was chased because "Mr. Greg Peters is better".

In the case of Mr. Ernie Tam who worked as an engineer from 2009, he was called by his boss on a Monday morning in 2015 and was told to be "no longer you are a star performer" and was fired. According to Mr. Tam, a personnel officer came immediately to talk about dismissal allowances and collect laptop PCs, he said, "I left the office as it is and never got home." The manager of Netflix is ​​conducting a "keeper test" that checks who is going to be dismissed, and Mr. Tam said that even after having received a remedy period after receiving his / her attention from his previous boss "a negative opinion has arrived" Regardless, she seems to be surprised that the decision of the new boss was "immediate dismissal".

A case of Ms. A, vice president of pre-marketing, was in 2014. A was advertising the second season of the drama " Orange is New Black " every weekend in New York City. Mr. Kelly · Bennett and Mr. Tawni · Nazario · Kranz, Chief Marketing Officer who is the boss's supervisor, will head to New York on the way from California to London, so we decided to hold a meeting on Monday However, what I was told to Mr. A on the spot was a dismissal for the reason "It does not fit culturally." Mr. Bennett who announced the dismissal soon rose and went outside so that Mr. A asked Mr. Nazario Krantz, "What was wrong with me?" Nazario-Kranz said " I should have dismissed someone on the team soon. " "I thought that I would be able to help my team members' career, but I saw them as" the appearance of the weakness of myself (Mr. A) ", Mr. A, who said that he received a dismissal notice After receiving it, how to tell her pregnant wife, I was crying throughout the 6 hour flight to Los Angeles.

Orange · New · Black | Netflix (Netflix) official website
https://www.netflix.com/jp/title/70242311

In addition, Mr. Nazario-Kranz is "Sunshine" as he withdrew cash from the company when he purchased a house in the Bay Area after that. She seems to be a favorite of Hastings CEO, she was buying incompetence from the top managers as "clearly being preeminent", but in this case Hastings CEO said, "Those with outstanding talent work Because it is for concentrating on the purchase assistance, it seems to have been attached to the fact that it showed the attitude of accepting purchase assistance ". On another occasion, it was decided to "Sunshine" about expenses for the team members' women's hair set and makeup at the opening event of Milan's office, but " I took back with my men and accrued them as necessary expenses, so I felt it was a problem so far "and it seems that responsibility was not questioned because the place was a discussion of" fairness of gender ". However, Mr. Nazario-Kranz was dismissed in 2017, whether Hastings' CEO could not finally succeed. From the side of Nazario-Kranz, it is expressed in the form of "departure in consideration of the condition of the heart and the desire to spend more time with the children". After that, I do not know what happened to the illness, but in June 2018 I took office as Waymo's chief personnel in charge of human resources.

Waymo Hires Tawni Nazario-Cranz As Its Chief People Officer | Android Headlines
https://www.androidheadlines.com/2018/06/waymo-hires-tawni-nazario-cranz-as-its-chief-people-officer.html

The frequency of dismissal of Netflix seems to be considerably high, and it is reported that employees were shocked when the Singapore office was established in 2016. Also, Korean employees who quit the Singapore office in 2018 saw the mother abusing his son in the public's "feedback" as stated earlier as Mr. A was laid off as a trigger for strict employees' I have commented that I remembered the North Korean forced to do.

A spokeswoman said that he was at Netflix as "a member of the Olympic team" and expressed that "dismissal of employees is regrettable, but it is taken immediately by other companies" It is.

In addition, there are reports of other cases in WSJ, which seems to be quite severe, but even with this, the annual employee retirement rate is 11%, and the average retirement of the IT company in 2018 investigated by LinkedIn It is said that it is lower than the rate · 13%. In fact, Mr. Tam who appears in the example above seems to feel that he was happy to work because he got plenty of salary, working on Netflix and learning a lot.