[blinkingled]

So what problems are your typical Netflix Engineers solving? I really don't mean to be insulting but given my interaction with Netflix as a consumer it's hard to see the stellar part. Lots of bandwidth play and even some Web app challenges but what part about it requires only A players with 200K+ salaries? Genuinely curious.

[pcl]

I'd guess that the challenging stuff is around the recommendation engine at this point.