Why do you except Netflix here? I'm not familiar with anything unusual about their hiring, and a couple of quick searches didn't turn up anything. Has their hiring been on HN previously?
I assume that he's referring to some of the pieces that have been written about Netflix practices such as lack of performance improvement plans. If someone isn't working out for whatever reason--maybe the job requirements have changed--let them go rather than stringing things along. I'm not sure that's inconsistent with trying to make things work though, just not trying to make things work out when you know how the story will end. https://hbr.org/2014/01/how-netflix-reinvented-hr
