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I think that if you don't have regular discussion of the good and bad, as it sounds like they do at Netflix, then the void gets filled with something else. I think that void in most cases is quickly filled with people who hate to explain their practices, don't want to discuss their failures, and as a whole that inhibits new people from succeeding and creates an awful work environment. I'm sure there are bad sides to this approach at Netflix but having seen what happens when the culture doesn't insist on regular difficult communication, I'm not sure Netflix sounds that awful.