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Demystifying Interviewing for Backend Engineers @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

You apply for multiple roles at the same company and proceed through the interview process with each hiring team separately, despite the fact that there is tremendous overlap in the roles. Interviewing can be a daunting endeavor and how companies, and teams, approach the process varies greatly.

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My (Seemingly) Random Walk to Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

That person grew up dreaming of working in the entertainment industry. Upon graduation, they received an offer from Netflix to become an analytics engineer, and pursue their lifelong dream of orchestrating the beautiful synergy of analytics and entertainment. When I was growing up, I developed a strong interest in the space program.

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Accelerates innovation.

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Native Frame Rate Playback

The Netflix TechBlog

by Akshay Garg , Roger Quero Introduction Maximizing immersion for our members is an important goal for the Netflix product and engineering teams to keep our members entertained and fully engaged in our content. to 30fps content. This concept is illustrated in Figure 5 below.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Our experimentation and causal inference focused data scientists help shape business decisions, product innovations, and engineering improvements across our service. We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Roxy Du (Product Innovation) [Roxy D.]

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