While the generous severance package and transparency about the process ease my concerns over whether it's ethical or not to cut employees so frequently, all I really got out of this is that I will probably never apply to Netflix.
I am counting my blessings that my contact with a Netflix recruiter did not go past the initial phone screen. At that time I had no idea what kind of company it was.
Unsurprisingly, even though this happened less than three years ago, all the people I had been in contact don't work in Netflix any more.
