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.
 
DukenukemX said:
I wouldn't have a problem with this, but very unlikely. Their profits aren't as high as they'd like so they cut jobs to make inverters happy.
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Porn, maybe.....but scripted content? Errrrr.........as it is, it's practically impossible to find watchable and enjoyable scripted content from the past 15 years when it was just human beings making that slop, maybe Three Body Problem is one of the rarer exceptions...but I'd argue even it wasn't *great*...good, but the execution left something to be desired.......although I guess "Can AI do it WORSE?" applies here. I think I touche'd myself.

But when you say AI Content I immediately think of those whack-assed YouTube Fake Game ads that I endure for 10 seconds before the SKIP button greys out (I know I know....I'm lazy), "YOUR BASE IS ONLY LEVEL 10? HA HA TRASH.....MY DAUGHTER IS DIVORCING YOU, YOUR ARMOR IS ONLY LEVEL 9" etc etc. Its probably not that. But...it's probably also that.

Apologies for interrupting a *very cool and enlightening* discussion on how Netflix operates and FreeBSD. Don't mind me....
 
HeadRusch said:
Porn, maybe.....but scripted content? Errrrr.........as it is, it's practically impossible to find watchable and enjoyable scripted content from the past 15 years when it was just human beings making that slop, maybe Three Body Problem is one of the rarer exceptions...but I'd argue even it wasn't *great*...good, but the execution left something to be desired.......although I guess "Can AI do it WORSE?" applies here. I think I touche'd myself.

But when you say AI Content I immediately think of those whack-assed YouTube Fake Game ads that I endure for 10 seconds before the SKIP button greys out (I know I know....I'm lazy), "YOUR BASE IS ONLY LEVEL 10? HA HA TRASH.....MY DAUGHTER IS DIVORCING YOU, YOUR ARMOR IS ONLY LEVEL 9" etc etc. Its probably not that. But...it's probably also that.

Apologies for interrupting a *very cool and enlightening* discussion on how Netflix operates and FreeBSD. Don't mind me....
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When you say AI you make it seem like there's no person behind it. AI slop still has people behind it when it was created, just not as many or as talented as other films. That's both a blessing and a curse as it means people without much artistic talent and finances can create unique films, but it also means people without any talent and creativity can also create films. We were already doing this with before AI and now we're going to be speed running this slop creation system.

I still don't think this is what Netflix is doing. When people see that AI was used then it's going to be black listed. AI not a not a wildly accepted method of media creation, and Netflix should be aware of this. The problem with Netflix is they've already been producing a lot of slop, just without AI.


View: https://youtu.be/7L997krZfww?si=qj6h7CM2PjdOURa-
 
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HeadRusch said:
..as it is, it's practically impossible to find watchable and enjoyable scripted content from the past 15 years when it was just human beings making that slop, maybe Three Body Problem is one of the rarer exceptions.
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maybe not without issues but we had strong season of Fargo, Games Of thrones, White Lotus, Breaking bads, The LeftOvers, Chernobyl, Succession, Veep, MadMen, Its always sunny in phidadelphia, True Detective etc... since the 2010s

Jean Marc Vallee season 1 of Big Littles Lies was a lot of fun, lot of people enjoyed The Americans/Walking death, BBC had some with Sherlock, Killing Eves, Netflix with House of Cards/Ozark, early season of Orange is the new black, MindHunter....

DukenukemX said:
I wouldn't have a problem with this, but very unlikely. Their profits aren't as high as they'd like so they cut jobs to make investors happy.
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your right, vast majority of layoff is not content based, it more on the tech-corporate side
 
LukeTbk said:
maybe not without issues but we had strong season of Fargo, Games Of thrones, White Lotus, Breaking bads, The LeftOvers, Chernobyl, Succession, Veep, MadMen, Its always sunny in phidadelphia, True Detective etc... since the 2010s
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Chernobyl was a mini series, Succession was.....I guess people are into that kind of thing, not my show....MadMen...you have me on that one, in my mind its from the 2000's however.....True Detective is behind a paywall for me but I digress, yes I paint with a broad brush so you are not wrong, and I'm not saying you are.
LukeTbk said:
Jean Marc Vallee season 1 of Big Littles Lies was a lot of fun, lot of people enjoyed The Americans/Walking death, BBC had some with Sherlock, Killing Eves, Netflix with House of Cards/Ozark, early season of Orange is the new black, MindHunter....
your right, vast majority of layoff is not content based, it more on the tech-corporate side
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The Americans was interesting for a few episodes for me but after that it felt like USA Network, when every new show was produced in Vancouver and had Amiga 500 class Special Effects. TekWar, Friday the 13th The Series....Tales from the Darkside....Ok that was awesome, I did get behind that......but, ahem, that was admittedly well outside my "15 years of dogshit" brackets. Sherlock was like 6 episodes man, and yes it was epic....but its like 6 episodes :D (ok ok but...it feels like 6 episodes!).

Ok, circling back...I think we might all agree on one thing: The amazing opportunity that individual creators have to break into the world of content creation has been truly inspiring.

But when it comes to canned content....I mean, look at Hollywood.....look at network TV......American Ninja? America's Got Talent? It's like 1977 all up in this.......yeah I'm like...effing old. I loved movies. Today....the last great movie I watched was Sicario, and while Dune was visually stunning...its a shot for shot remake of Lynch's version (which I consider superior because I love David Lynch)...never even bothered with the follow-ups, I know how the movie ends. For me when I see Netflix laying off people, I think less stuff I'm not going to really appreciate anyhow, because I'm really not their target audience anymore.
 
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