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> It’s that it just wasn’t a good fit due to misalignment of goals.

That's not what Netflix's own spokesman say:

> Richard Siklos, a Netflix spokesman, said the company only fires employees for performance reasons

Only "performance reasons", not "misalignment of goals".

> Perhaps someone doesn’t want to change or just keeps behaving in a way that they’ve been asked not to.

Saying someone "just keeps behaving in a way that they’ve been asked not to" is a very negative thing to say. As a hiring managing, hearing that about a candidate would cause me not to hire them.

> It’s usually very positive about them

Something is very distorted if you think saying about someone that he "just keeps behaving in a way that they’ve been asked not to" and similar stuff that make a person unemployable is "very positive about them".

And once more, this contradicts everything else in the article. You can't have your cake and eat it, too: if Netflix is saying (through it's spokesman and multiple other execs in the article) that firing is always due to performance reason, then that's not a "very positive" statement about the person being fired. It's actually a very negative statement.



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