Netflix, when we were interviewing people, we told them straight out that we were not a career-management company, that we believed people’s careers were theirs to manage, and that while there might be lots of opportunity for them to advance at the company, we wouldn’t be designing opportunities for them. So often companies give people half of a job they need done, because the person can’t do the whole job. I realized that we just couldn’t afford to do that. We needed people who could do the whole job. We were also determined not to make the incredibly common mistake of promoting into
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