Most Tech Companies Today Have Rewards Programs. Thanks to these programs, users who find flaws in their platform, generally security, will obtain a monetary reward. Netflix was one of the few that did not have such a system. Although this is going to change, because they have already announced their Big Bounty program.
This is a program according to which Netflix wants users to find bugs. Therefore, if you are the first to find a bug on the platform, they will give you a reward. Although, it is a somewhat special program. Because it will be the company's engineers who decide whether or not there is a reward.
The company ran a Big Bounty program two years ago. Although this time it was a somewhat different program, since it was private. So it was only available to 100 researchers that the company itself selected. This program was closed with a reward of $ 15.000But it has never been known who took the money.
This time Netflix is betting on an open rewards program. So all users can search for bugs on the platform and report them to the company. Then, the engineering team will analyze the failure that has been reported and decide whether or not the user receives a reward for it.
Netflix does this, because according to the company comments, its engineers have a great degree of autonomy for the safety of your products and freedom to make decisions about rewards in a faster way. Since they know better which are more serious failures. So it seems they are looking to streamline the process.
In addition, the company has commented that Contributions will be inducted into the Security Investigators Hall of Fame when a user becomes the first to report a problem. They will also receive their reward. What do you think of this rewards program?