Bozoma Saint John, Netflix‘s chief marketing officer, posted a message Saturday from the company’s Co-CEO and Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, in which he discussed the recent firing of three senior marketing executives over disparaging remarks they sent in a public company Slack channel.
The three employees of the film marketing team were let go for making comments critical of other Netflix staffers, which were not characterized as racist, sexist, homophobic or gross misconduct, a source tells PvNew.
The company has not named the executives. But Sarandos said on linkedin that employees talking about fellow employees, sometimes while in a meeting with them, goes against Netflix standards of conduct. Sarandos specified that the messages were about their peers, not about their superiors as had been previously reported by a trade publication.
“What happened here was not simply venting on Slack or a single conversation,” he wrote in a message. “These were critical, personal comments made over several months about their peers.”
Saint John tweeted Sarandos’ message writing, “Because Ted Sarandos is a real one (and so is Reed Hastings and all my colleagues) who uphold our @netflix culture values.”
Because Ted Sarandos is a real one (and so is Reed Hastings and all my colleagues) who uphold our @netflix culture values
