Netflix Cuts About 6% of Jobs In Biggest Layoffs Since 2022

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“Netflix is laying off about 1,000 employees, or 6% of its workforce, in its largest round of cuts since 2022. The company says its business remains strong, but it is facing growing pressure from YouTube, TikTok, and other rivals. Reuters reports: The bulk of the job cuts would be in Netflix's product, tech, legal and human-resources teams, the email Co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos sent to employees on Wednesday showed.

"Our mission -- to entertain the world -- is ambitious, and delivering on it requires us to be disciplined about where we prioritize our people âand resources," they said in the memo. "Our business is strong and growing, and we remain on track to deliver our full-year forecast."”
Source: https://slashdot.org/story/26/10/14...about-6-of-jobs-in-biggest-layoffs-since-2022
 
"On the TV side, executives cut so far include director-level executive Lisa Lang McMullen, Andrew McQuinn, Carolina Garcia and James Oh, and managers Jason Pan and Aaron Davidson. This story will be updated as more names become public.
These individuals join executives on the film division like Doug Belgrad and Sheroum Kim, who were also impacted by this round of layoffs. Netflix declined to comment.
Lang McMullen worked as director of overall deals, she joined Netflix in 2021 after 12 years at Disney. McQuinn was original series director and had been in the company since 2018 from ABC Signature. His credits include shows like “American Primeval,” “Zero Day” and “Griselda.”
Garcia was also an original series director and had been with the streamer since 2016. She joined from 20th Century Fox Television and worked on big tentpole series like “Stranger Things.” Oh was director of drama series since 2021, coming from an SVP position at Jerry Bruckheimer TV.
On the manager side, Pan was in the original series team while Davidson was in the adult animation team."
 
philb2 said:
Honest question, not a troll. Why is that so?
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FreeBSD is the operating system on the video distribution boxes that Netflix deploys forward to ISPs. There are a lot of those. They optimize the hell out of them on an OS level.

Netflix employs (employed?) a substantial number of FreeBSD contributors, it sponsored conferences and the foundation etc.

Since Yahoo left Netflix is the biggest FreeBSD "customer".
 
uOpt said:
FreeBSD is the operating system on the video distribution boxes that Netflix deploys forward to ISPs. There are a lot of those. They optimize the hell out of them on an OS level.

Netflix employs (employed?) a substantial number of FreeBSD contributors, it sponsored conferences and the foundation etc.

Since Yahoo left Netflix is the biggest FreeBSD "customer".
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Are you talking about the content appliances that were brought up during the Net Neutrality era?
 
westrock2000 said:
Are you talking about the content appliances that were brought up during the Net Neutrality era?
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Yep those. Although afaik, they use the same boxes for content distribution nodes that live in colo space for users that don't have an isp hosted box.

I'd think content distribution should remain a high priority for them. ISPs have a limited amount of spacs for these boxes, so pumping the maximum bandwidth out of each is important. Equipment is expensive lately, so increasing efficiency is valuable from that perspective as well.

It's been a few years since they discussed 800gbps out of their CDN boxes (in specific configurations for hot content). I kind of expect a 1.6 Tbps post soon.

I also wonder if growth stalls, they might sell their CDN services to competitors.
 
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