When the market heats up and recruiters are calling, employees get curious. No matter what I say, some of them are going to have those talks and go to those interviews. If I don’t give them permission, they’ll sneak around and then leave without giving me a chance to retain them. A month before I made that statement, we lost an amazing executive whose talents we will not be able to replace. When she came to me, she’d already accepted the other job. There was nothing I could do. When she told me that she’d loved working at Netflix but she’d received a forty percent pay raise, my heart sank. I
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