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Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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492 points storf45 | 2 comments | 16 Nov 24 03:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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walrushunter ◴[16 Nov 24 04:16 UTC] No.42154141[source]▶
I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 500 company. The dumbest engineer on our team left for Netflix. He got a pay raise too.

Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.

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moralestapia ◴[16 Nov 24 04:20 UTC] No.42154170[source]▶
I can +1 with a similar anecdote.

They obviously have some really good engineers, but many low-tier ones as well. No idea how long they stay there, though.

I'm watching the fight now and have experienced the buffering issues. Bit embarrassing for a company that fundamentally only does a single thing, which is this. Also, yeah, 900k TC and whatnot but irl you get this. Mediocre.

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spencerchubb ◴[16 Nov 24 04:22 UTC] No.42154184[source]▶
livestream is quite different from streaming pre-processed video, so I'm not surprised by the scaling issues
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1. katbyte ◴[16 Nov 24 05:21 UTC] No.42154520[source]▶
i was mildly interested and managed to find a pirate livestream, it didn't have buffering issues lol
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2. dh2022 ◴[16 Nov 24 06:30 UTC] No.42154820[source]▶
Well the pirate site was not live-streaming to 100 million users…