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Plus, they have the Reddit gold program.

Not sure if that is enough, but does Reddit really need 2000 employees and hundreds of millions of CV money? I have a hard time estimating what it costs to run a site like Reddit.



I'm a very attached reddit user and I have no idea what they could be doing with 2000 employees. I'm honestly shocked.

The development they've done in the past 5 years could have been done with like 50-100 people, including keeping all the SRE going. Insane.


Reddit has been overwhelmed by a certain type of employee that spends more time worrying about the political opinions of their colleagues and less about excellence and productivity. Similar to twitter which turned out to be a finely tuned Rube-Goldberg machine that required hourly maintenance to keep online. Im not saying I’m smart enough to make things work well but that such people exist and they don’t/didn’t work at either twitter or Reddit.


My guess is that many marketing based sites bloat their staff and expenses to a self perpetuating and useless degree.


Wow.. Didn't know this. It sounds like something has gone wrong there. Good old greed maybe?




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