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Netflix Is Looking To Pay Someone To Watch Netflix All Day

Posted by samzenpus on from the how-do-you-hire-that-which-has-no-life dept.

An anonymous reader writes with news about a dream job for binge-watching couch potatoes in the UK. Ploughing through your new favourite series on Netflix is something you probably enjoy doing after a working day, but what if it was your working day? You see, Netflix has a fancy recommendation engine that suggests movies and shows you might like based on your prior viewing habits. To do that successfully, it needs information from a special group of humans that goes beyond the basics like genre and user rating. "Taggers," as they're known, analyse Netflix content and feed the recommendation engine with more specific descriptors if, for example, a film is set in space or a cult classic. In short, these people get paid to watch TV all day, and Netflix is currently hiring a new tagger in the UK.

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  1. Re:Seems excessive... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because they want shills to recommend shows nobody else wants to see so they'll get kickbacks from the clueless publishers.

  2. Don't get me wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I like spending the occasional 1 - 4 hours watching a few episodes in a row or maybe two movies, but doing that 8 hours a day / 5 days a week? Enjoyment soon turns into torture, hope they get paid good.