Get Paid To Watch Netflix Job

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you were paid to watch anime and other TV shows all day? That dream could be a reality with this new Netflix position.

Netflix is hiring someone to 'watch, research, tag, annotate, and write analysis for movie and TV content' and while it seems like the dream position for anime lovers, there's a major twist: needing to be proficient in a non-English language.

For many of us, 2020 is the year we've lived in PJs and mined Netflix harder than ever before - but now, a dreamy-sounding job means you could be paid to do just that. Yep, Loungewear brand Pour Moi has opened applications for their latest vacancy, and it's a fantasy-come-true for all the sloth types out there. An online site called BonusFinder is giving people the opportunity to be a professional binge watcher and get paid $500 to watch three Netflix shows and will receive a stipend to order different pizzas. All you will have to do is watch TV and eat then provide reviews on the food and the shows.

Netflix has listed a new position on their website for an Editorial Analyst of their original content (you can find the full job posting at this link) and states that the person they are looking for is 'an entertainment-savvy analyst to help categorize television series, specials, and movies for our 100+ million users.'

According to the job position, the incoming Editorial Analyst will 'be tagging, rating, researching, and enhancing title-level metadata for the Netflix Originals catalogue in a high-volume, high-quality, deadline-driven environment.'

While this may sound like a dream job for those in the Los Angeles area (or willing to move), the applicant must be proficient in a language other than English in order to be considered for the position. Along with the other requirements of needing to have at least five years of experience in this area of expertise, needing to be proficient in a non-English language is a hefty hurdle to overcome.

While the description for the Editorial Analyst position does not specify that the position involves anime series, it would only make sense that the medium would be heavily involved for anyone who is in this position.

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Netflix has previously stated that they plan to raise their anime distribution for 2018, and the fruits of that labor are already being plucked with the streaming service not only already premiering major streaming exclusives like for The Seven Deadly Sins, Kakegurui, and Violet Evergarden, but they have also premiered brand new anime series on the service like B: The Beginning and A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- .

The person who does land in this position will most likely view a ton of their incoming anime series, as well as many of their other multiple releases before they officially land on the service. Netflix is producing a ton of new anime, television series, and movies and adding them to their service almost every day so the Editorial Analyst position sounds like a fun but busy one.

There are those who binge watch to avoid work, and then there are the lucky few who binge watch for work.

Netflix recently posted a UK/Ireland-based job listing seeking someone who would be paid to watch TV shows and movies and tag them with genres. While we thought the idea of getting paid to stream shows without having to change out of stretch pants seemed like the best career ever, others worried that spending hours tagging videos ranging from “Gory Canadian Revenge Movies” to “Sentimental Movies About Horses for Ages 11 to 12” was the fastest way to “occupation-induced madness.”

So we decided to talk to Greg Harty, one of 40 part-time taggers, about what it’s really like to watch Netflix for a living — from the good to the bad to the My Little Ponies.

Netflix hired Harty, 34, in its first batch of taggers eight years ago. “At the time they described it as an experiment,” he says. “It’s one of the luckier gigs I’ve gotten.”

A movie buff who’s worked odd jobs in film, televisions, video games, writing, and software testing, the Los Angeles-based Harty describes his Netflix interview as one of the easiest he’s ever had: “We talked about everything from Casablanca to Predator in the same conversation, which doesn’t happen that often.”

Taggers are asked to watch and rank shows and movies based on a variety of guidelines. “We have a couple hundred different categories (i.e. perilous situations, race against time, darkness of humor, etc.) in which our taggers can dissect content,” spokesperson Betsy Sund says. “Some of the tags are scalar (for level of comedy/action/chase scenes etc) and others are categories of terms we’ve vetted ourselves (including cerebral, light-hearted, rebellious, etc.), while others are specific to characters and/or directors.”

But 1 to 5 ratings abide by an “A for Effort” ideology.

“For comedy it’s about comedic intent rather than if you thought it was funny or not,” Harty said. “If you know a movie is trying to get a laugh for every scene, that rates higher than whether it got the laugh or not.”

Detachment, therefore, is a key ingredient for being a successful Netflix tagger. Harty says a common misconception of his job is he is a “Roman emperor for movies,” giving them a thumbs up or down.

“You need to be objective,” Harty said. “This is never about whether I like a movie, and if I like it, I can’t change the tagging to try to get you to watch it.”

The whole point of the job is to provide users with suggestions that align with their watching preferences, whatever those preferences may be. “You might like what I consider to be horrible movies,” Harty said. “And my job right now is to get you all those horrible movies you want.”

Supervisors will, however, give taggers a heads up if there’s a particularly disturbing movie to watch and ask for volunteers rather than assigning it arbitrarily. And in specific circumstances, like the film Irreversible — which features a graphic rape scene — a supervisor will personally tag it.

Taggers are given assignments on a weekly basis, and while there are some specialists in certain genres and taggers can request to tag a specific movie, Harty receives assignments at random. The weekly time commitment ranges from a couple of hours to eight movies a week, which — barring the world’s Titanics — runs between 16 and 20 hours. Luckily the hours of required watching has not limited Harty’s ability to binge watch. He saw all of Orange is the New Black season two in two days.

A non-disclosure agreement prohibits Netflix taggers from disclosing their salary, although Sund did volunteer that the part-time work’s pay “makes up a percentage of his overall salary.” A 2012 story in the L.A. Timesestimated that taggers make “several hundred dollars per week.”

But when watching gets bad, and we’re talking really bad, Harty says that it doesn’t hurt to remember his undisclosed paycheck.

“I come from a blue collar family and watched both of my parents bust their humps every day,” he said. “I’m not going to complain because I have to watch My Little Pony.“

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