Netflix reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(2,521 total reviews)

Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters

87% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Netflix has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,521 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Netflix employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Oct 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It's incredibly easy work. Good pay, requires a fair amount of patience and people skills. Free m&m's and a drink dispensers, cool cafeteria for a call center.

Cons

In my time of working for NetflixCS, I was stressed mentally and physically, they use losing your job against you in every single humanly mishap that could happen, emergency with the kids? Not excusable or ability to have excusal by reasonable cause, they literally tell you after the first time that your job will be on the line if you are so much as 5 minutes late again. Get something a little mixed up on the knowledge base? You're on thin ice. I feel as if I started feeling this way once they had moved me to a new team. This "supervisor" was bossy, not a leader. Raised her voice and talked to few on the team like children. They were smart and switched teams after a few occurrences of her demonstrating her work ethic. I decided, I can change my schedule soon I don't want to make a fuss, so I stayed next thing I know I'm one of the leaders on the team we had a coaching and all she did for the first time ever was acknowledge my hard work, I was proud. After all the fear of f'ing up and losing my job I realized I could relax. A week later I was fired because I had to miss 1 day because my 2 year old daughter had strep, mind you this, my sup was constantly late or leaving early for non emergency type situations, was constantly on her phone on the call floor, for non work related types of things such as looking through social media and online shopping, there is an example of blatant favoritism. I knew people who missed much more time than I had, and had never even been spoken too, or threatened. I would take this to hr but as my sup said when terming me, the decision is final and I will not longer be working at Netflix customer service.

4.0
Apr 8, 2016

Fantastic place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This is a great place to work if you're genuinely interested in the success of your coworkers and are able to clearly see the connection between that and the success of the business. Freedom and responsibility is definitely practiced here. No one will hand you a project, deadlines, and a specific way to go about doing your work. They trust that they've hired the best people to do the job and they leave it up to the individual to identify problems and figure out how to solve them. This sort of environment is not for everyone, because you have to build strong enough relationships with your coworkers so they'd go to bat for you on your projects. Team-building isn't a company-mandated activity here. It's an everyday practice and an integral part of the job. Feedback is candid and immediate, so get ready. There's no sugarcoating here. To be successful here, you have to be open to criticism, no matter how direct. This, again, might not work for everyone, but it makes your next course of action very clear, as opposed to sugarcoated feedback that leaves you confused as to what you should do.

Cons

Netflix gets a bad rap, because it's not for everyone. The fact is, that's not necessarily a bad thing, and there's no shame in trying something out and seeing if it works out for you. What appears difficult about Netflix is exactly what makes it a great place to work. You have to be able to manage yourself, no one will manage your time for you. While the company is not as diverse as it could be, the commitment to diversity is something I've witnessed first-hand from leadership and employees alike. The tone is set that diversifying the company is a part of everyone's job at Netflix, not just the recruiting team. If you need someone to manage your time for you, need your tasks to be very clear and outlined by a manager, or you can't handle feedback, then Netflix isn't for you.

1.0
Dec 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Same amount of hours on paycheck each week .

Cons

Bullying upper management was the worst a lot of games played , way to many ways to be let go by just coming to work , Didn't enjoy my experience, no room for advancement

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