薪资：为何Netflix可以给到软件工程师以Google/Facebook两杯甚至更多的薪水

Why does Netflix pursue such an aggressive wage policy by paying its computer programmers almost twice as much as Google or Facebook?https://blog.salaryproject.com/netflix-software-engineers-earn-a-salary-of-more-than-300000/Linchuan Zhang, Software Engineer at Google (2018-present)Answered Jan 13 · Upvoted by Marc Bodnick, Former institutional investor in Facebook and Jeremy Miles, Data Scientist at Google (2015-present)Continue ReadingNetflix only hires Senior Software Engineers. As far as I could tell, this isn’t title inflation [1], but descriptively accurate. That is, engineers at Netflix are usually at skill levels comparable to Senior Software Engineers at other top tier tech companies.At that level, the difference in pay is much less than a factor of 2. Netflix allegedly pays ~400K for senior software engineers. Keep in mind that Netflix has relatively few benefits, and basically no monetary compensation other than base salary. I can’t find reliable and public total compensation numbers for Senior Software Engineers at Google/Facebook, but rest assured that it’s considerably higher than 200K. Still on average less than 400K, probably.As for why Netflix probably pays more, here are the possible reasons:Because they can. My impression is that just as ads at Facebook/Google makes money fall from the sky, Netflix subscriptions basically print money, aka it’s a highly scalable way to make lots of money with high gross margins. Unlike Facebook or especially Google however, which hires a lot of people on ancillary projects in the hopes of funding the next moonshot, Netflix seems laser-focused on their core product. So they both make a lot of money and don’t need to hire a lot of people. If tech is the center of your business and you’re only planning to hire a few engineers, why not pay a lot to hire the best?Work at Netflix is more stressful. I don’t know how true this is, but the reputation in the Valley is definitely that Netflix is much more stressful than Facebook which is more stressful than Google.Netflix has a reputation of firing people early and often. Sid Reddy's answer to Does the Netflix work culture create a culture of fear amongst its employees?If this is true (and arguably even if it isn’t, as long as enough people believe it), then Netflix has to pay more to compensate.(more speculative) Poorer hiring/training pipeline. Google, Facebook, and basically every other large tech company hire generally smart people and then train them at every stage in their careers, usually from college internships onwards. The career trajectory is usually something like college intern -> junior engineer/graduate intern -> mid-level engineer -> senior engineer -> staff+ (most people never reach this level). This process engenders a surprising amount of both name recognition and company loyalty for engineers. Netflix tries to skip past all of that, and only start hiring at the senior engineer level [2]. If they only poach senior people from other companies and don’t have a native hiring bench, is it any surprise that they have to pay more to compensate?[1] Unlike at, say, LinkedIn.[2] If you look for “internship jobs” at Work at Netflix, there’s only a single hiring team, and they only look for graduate students with very specific academic experience.