Comment by Aaronmacaron

I think the problem is that the "easy" parts of netflix such as the UI or the recommendation engine seem like they were hacked together over the weekend. Of course deploying and maintaining something of the scale of netflix is incredibly hard. But if they can afford thousands of engineers who optimize the performance why can't they hire a few UI/UX engineers to fix the godawful interface which is slightly different on every device? I think this is where this sentiment stems from.