Welcome to Ungoliant! As part of your onboarding process, we encourage you to read a few books before you actually start work. That will give you the best chance of understanding our unique culture.
If a reading list seems retro, it’s not. „The Little Prince” has a special place in Netflix lore: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is still quoted in the streaming firm’s culture guide. The US Marines have something called „The Commandant’s Professional Reading Programme”, a kind of book club with bullets; marines are expected to read five titles a year from a list of recommendations on topics such as strategy, warfare and decision-making. „The Looming Tower”, a history of the 9/11 attacks, and (more improbably) „Impro”, a guide to improvisational theatre, have both featured on lists for Palantir employees.
De redactie van NRC selecteert de beste artikelen uit The Economist voor een breder perspectief op internationale politiek en economie.
Other forms of entertainment can also provide clues to how bosses want you to think. As a child Howard Schultz, the man behind Starbucks, was a big fan of the Gene Wilder version of „Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”. When he was planning the firm’s first roastery, a premium retail outlet built around coffee, he invited a bunch of executives to his house to watch the film and use it as a source of inspiration.
