Netflix's '3%' Turns the Google Job Interview into a Dystopian Nightmare

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/netflix-3-percent-review

by walterbell • 10 years ago

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GlickWick• 10 years ago

This feels a bit clickbaity. As far as I can tell nobody really interviews in this fashion anymore.

The actual content makes it seem like an interesting show akin to Black Mirror.

kod• 10 years ago

Am I the only one who thought this was going to be about the actual interview process for Netflix's engineering team?

DoofusOfDeath• 10 years ago

Nope.

sharemywin• 10 years ago

exactly what I thought.

geooooooooobox• 10 years ago

And here I was thinking, damn if the interviews weren't hard enough .. well good to know they haven't stepped up a whole three notches

j1vms• 10 years ago

And here I was thinking, damn if the interviews weren't hard enough .. well good to know they haven't stepped up a whole three notches

Ah yes, interviewing in tech, from what I hear: ten times harder than interviewing for a C-suite management role at the same company... with no more than a tenth of the effective pay.

Edit: Supply and demand of course.

kahrkunne• 10 years ago

The article just makes the series feel like an anti-capitalist propaganda vehicle (which it might very well be, I haven't seen it). The title is also misleading - the article never mentions Google

hashberry• 10 years ago

At least they can become the 3% based on innate intelligence and talent. With tech interviews, you need to come pre-packaged with experience and skill, like those "entry level" positions that want 3-4 years of experience across multiple technologies.

baccheion• 10 years ago

It's arbitrary and seemingly (because it's biased) random who passes Google's interviews. Maybe it's not as bad now, I wouldn't know, but even as recently as a few years ago, it was almost as though they decided who to hire before interviews even began.

Netflix's '3%' Turns the Google Job Interview into a Dystopian Nightmare

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