- Blind, a networking app that requires a work-email address to verify employment, surveyed roughly 11,800 of its 3 million users from January 8 through February 10 to see how they felt about their employers' human-resources departments.
- Of the Netflix employees who responded to the survey, 72% said the streaming company's recruiting team did a good job facilitating the hiring process.
- Netflix was second only to financial information company Bloomberg LP in the share of employee respondents who praised its recruiters.
- However, a minority of Netflix respondents said the human-resources department cared about its employees.
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Netflix employees say the company's recruiting team is among the best in tech, according to a new survey published by the workplace-review app, Blind.
Blind, a networking app that requires a work-email address to verify employment, surveyed roughly 11,800 of its 3 million users from January 8 through February 10 to see how they felt about their employers' human-resources departments.
Of the Netflix employees who responded to the survey, 72% said that the streaming company's recruiting team did a good job facilitating the hiring process. Netflix was second only to financial information company Bloomberg LP in the share of respondents who praised their employers' recruiters.
There are roughly 2,000 Netflix employees on the Blind app.
Netflix has built up over the past few years a team of roughly 200 in-house recruiters, who scour social media, network at industry events, and vet candidates as the streaming company staffs up around the world. Some of Netflix's recruiters are also assigned to individual teams so they intimately know the staffing needs, which is a strategy other companies have deployed as well.
While most Netflix employees who participated in the Blind survey praised the company's recruiting tactics, a minority said the human resources department cared about its employees.
Only 44% of Netflix respondents said the company's human-resources department cared about the well being of Netflix employees, and 32% said HR cared about employee's professional development.
Netflix isn't known for hand-holding. The streaming company's culture memo says all of its employees should be "extraordinary" and that "adequate employees" get severance packages.
Nonetheless, Netflix employees seem happy. A December survey of Blind users found that Netflix had the highest percentage of happy employees on the networking app.
Blind's 2020 HR survey also included respondents from companies like Google, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, and LinkedIn. About 46% of employees at Google, whose HR boss is stepping down amid employee unrest, said HR cared about the well being of its employees - 2% ahead of Netflix.
Business Insider asked Netflix insiders how to get a job at the streaming company. See our coverage on BI Prime:
- Exactly what it takes to get a job at Netflix, according to its head of hiring, former employees, and recruiting experts: Insiders share their best tips for navigating the hiring process, from how to prep for an interview to what to do if you don't get the job.
- How to get noticed by Netflix job recruiters who can help you get hired, according to company insiders: The first step is to craft your online persona to tell your professional story.
- How to get a job interview at Netflix with the help of employee referrals - and what to avoid doing, according to company insiders: Recommendations from Netflix employees can get prospective candidates noticed by Netflix recruiters. Former employees shared their top tips on getting referrals, and using them to land a job.
- Netflix's 5 toughest job-interview questions, according to company insiders: These are some of the job interview questions prospective candidates should be prepared to answer at any stage of the hiring process.
- Netflix's recruiting boss reveals the team the company is staffing up the most in 2020: Netflix's creative-production team will be its biggest hiring priority.
- The top 10 slides from Netflix's groundbreaking first culture deck that experts say had the most impact: Netflix's culture deck is a must read for prospective candidates. Recruiters explain what sets Netflix's culture apart from other tech companies.
Disclosure: Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, is a Netflix board member.
