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In this latest episode of the How Would You Beat podcast, we looked at how you can beat Netflix, or how Netflix could beat its current performance. Should Netflix invest in gaming platforms? Is the metaverse a threat or an opportunity for Netflix and other streaming apps?
Netflix could stream games to compete even if the level of interactiveness might not be at the same level as gaming consoles; they could even consider acquiring gaming console companies. Gaming represents an unexpected threat to streaming TV shows and movies that you can only see if you look beyond jobs-to-be-done for OTT platforms and figure out what the functional job is.
Netflix could give creators tools to figure out what content to invest in. After all, producing films and TV shows is expensive. They could also improve recommendations on what to watch. Of course, they already do this, but can it be faster and more accurate?
Netflix has already transformed themselves once - from a DVD mailing platform (offline) to a streaming platform (online/software). Expanding from where it is now to providing insights for content creators and recommendations to users is a much smaller shift in gears. They simply get deeper into being a software company, a move they have already made.
So when I quit Netflix in May 2021, everyone thought I was crazy. My parents objected first. Coming from cultural revolution China where they barely had enough food to eat, they thought I was throwing away all the hard work they went through to come to America.
I felt like there was no doubt that engineering could execute for Netflix, but I felt the better question was whether a particular project was a good use of engineering resources at all. So I wanted to transition into Product Management where I could lead these efforts. I spent 2 years going in a circle around the company, networking non-stop, talking to every organization, and applying for every role I could find.
Watching millions of people die from COVID made me realize that tomorrow is not guaranteed. You could die from COVID before any of your dreams are ever realized. And the longer you put off a dream, the greater the risk that it never happens. So if there is anything you want, you have to go for it right now.
I truly believe now that playing it safe is the riskiest choice of all. When you play it safe, you are just as exposed to all the dangers, except you have no chance of the upside. As Helen Keller once said:
Spot on, it seems the Author benefited immensely from the experience and the financial gain that has allowed a different lifestyle choice.
Perhaps some more critical introspection would have helped this article appear a bit more relatable.
See the opportunity for crying out loud. Start a new side project while being paid a lucrative salary. The silly Lauren Self tweet about aiming to work less than 5 hours a day could easily be replaced with "I made my paid work more efficient so I could work on my passion project".
There is some bias when it comes to judging a person's behaviour when we take salary under consideration. For example, we would instinctively attribute things we would do if we were in that position. But this doesn't seem right.
I see hundreds of articles on Medium. I see people doing extraordinary things, being 10x developers or having other superpowers, earning big bucks, etc., but I don't do either. Instead, I humbly struggle in my life, and I am glad I can learn something and enjoy things from time to time while my fiancee holds my hand when I am overwhelmed. She deserves more credit.
I was recently in a similar situation. In my case, my motivation waned because my management changed 4 times in 9 months. My performance dropped and my managers tried to give me work and coached me to deliver, but my health started to suffer from the stress. I feared I could get fired at any minute. I attempted to leave for another org, but I couldn't because of my probationary status.
When the news came of layoffs, I started praying that I would be one of the affected. Someone must've been listening, cuz here I am talking to recruiters and past employers who all want me. I just have to be careful and pick the place that would value me as an employee.
So guy had huge salary, then wanted to change role. High chance his managers saw that he would not fit, so they not gave him role. The guy become upset and stopped do work for what he paid so much money. And that only half of shame. Then he decide blackmail manager to get even more money for job he not done, threatening he would stay longer and waste even more company's money! That a shame!
HR been hiring those scammers...
Many would be happy to work at Netflix, a specially for that money, and those guy blackmailed them!
You're free to chase your dreams and this is good, but you have to be prepared to lose a ton of money during that time. And working for yourself - prepare NOT to earn anything for the next couple of years while piling up expenses.
Maybe you wanted people to tell you again how stunning and brave you are, not everyone will. Like your parents, I think this was a mistake not wanting anymore to be part of a company having that much visible impact on the world and on top of that for such prosperity given to you.
Also, I do feel (reading your story) that Netflix genuinely takes good care of their people, they're absolutely not a bad employer, on the contrary. That's also why this is giving me mixed feelings - it's like I almost feel pity for Netflix, lol.
Please don't take this the wrong way as I'm not judging because everyone is free to do whatever they want with their life because we all get one and only one... hell I quite couple of positions because I was no longer happy in them so I totally understand your point however those jobs did not have 2% of the perks and pay that you seem to have had with yours... I do not know you, I have no idea what you're going through in your life and again I'm not judging this is only my opinion based on the article that you decided to publish publicly for the world to read I agree with your parents, friends and most of the commenters on here that you handled this wrong and I believe I speak for a lot of people when I say anyone would've been happy to copy and paste for half of the the perks and pay that you had but then again if you're financially well off then you can afford to do this which brings me to my second point and this is just a theory but I believe you wrote this article for one of two reason either as click bait or deep down inside you believe you've made a mistake and you're seeking validation from some commenters on here which I do not see you got.
Usually in these kinds of essays, I'm all about not wasting your youth, not striving so much your health suffers, and not valuing salary over sanity. Life is short, live it fully. But in this case, I've got to side with this guy's parents and mentor. Unless you've saved up enough that you never have to worry about salary again (which at $450K/year you had a chance to do quite quickly) you are a fool to give it up.
These incredible jobs are not as common as you think - your salary alone represents something like 30,000 Netflix subscriptions. I'm guessing you will never again make that much money for that little stress (and it doesn't, from your description, sound like it was all that stressful - and I say that as someone who's experienced the soul-crushing drain of doing unsatisfying work from time to time). Who knows, maybe you're right that this move "might ironically unlock potential earnings even greater than I was making before" but I highly doubt it. There are many hard-working, brilliant software engineers from elite schools who pursue improved opportunities and fulfilling work for their whole career and never make half that much. And these high-salary coding jobs will get even more rare as it gets easier and easier to work across time zones with non-USA coders. Good luck, fellow Cal grad!
Special note to Netflix HR: you sound like you've built a wonderful place to work, and I admire that. However, the correct response to someone saying they're ready for a "preemptive severance package" is a quick goodbye, an escort to the door, and a final paycheck deposited two weeks later. (I hate that the USA is like this, but that is absolutely the expected norm). If you're really feeling generous and don't mind the security risk, let them work those two weeks for the sake of knowledge transfer - but you certainly don't need to give them extra money. Once they're gone, search your inbox for the 10,000 resumes of people who'd be thrilled to spend a few years repurposing proven bits of code for a mere $250K. ;-)
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