Talent Density at Netflix = Rockstar Principle - Deepstash

Talent Density at Netflix = Rockstar Principle

Netflix's managers understood that merely adequate performers brings down the performance of everyone on the team. The rockstar principle guiding this says that "In all creative roles, the best is easily ten times better than average." So the goal of a Netflix leader is to create a team made up exclusively of top performers:

  • The Netflix employees are encouraged to go to interviews to competing companies to discover their true market value. Compensation is automatically increased to match a bigger offer. 
  • Each employee must pass the the Keeper Test: "IF A PERSON ON YOUR TEAM WERE TO QUIT TOMORROW, WOULD YOU TRY TO CHANGE THEIR MIND?"If a manager answer no to that question the employee is let go.

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