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I'm a fan of Reddit, I think working there could be a smart resume / connection building move, but: a) You work as a contractor, are not guaranteed to be hired

by aresant 16y ago

I'm a fan of Reddit, I think working there could be a smart resume / connection building move, but: a) You work as a contractor, are not guaranteed to be hired as an employee anytime soon, receive no benefits and no stock. b) The company has already been acquired. c) Reddit's corporate overlords seem most interested in pumping the asset vs. expanding, may be a stifling environment. If it was me I'd do the app but send it instead to Hipmunk (Reddit co-founder's new start-up)

jedberg 16y ago
This is all true. reddit is a great place to work if you want to learn a lot, get some great experience, and have a really strong influence on the product. But it is not a startup -- there is no big upside. And I don't think Hipmunk is hiring yet. :)
- aresant 16y ago
  It's funny, still hard for me to think of Reddit as not a start-up, but I guess I'm running at least two years behind - http://blog.reddit.com/2009/11/moving-to-cloud.html http://blog.reddit.com/2009/11/moving-to-cloud.html - :) Appreciate your response - hope you guys find somebody great and certainly HN is the right place to start.
- akkartik 16y ago
  I met the reddit guys for breakfast one day maybe six months ago. I had left my job, been hacking on a website for several months, launched. I was trying to show it to someone new in person everyday. I was trying for all sorts of people. By the time we finished breakfast, I blurted out, "So, y'all hiring?" They're just that cool. It doesn't always have to be a startup.
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  - dpapathanasiou 16y ago
    So is readwarp your main thing now?
  - jedberg 16y ago
    Aww shucks. Thanks! ps. Still looking for a job? :)
- sanswork 16y ago
  I think one of the better upsides is the chance for people to work at scale with a small team where they still have a lot of influence. I'm in the same position currently and it certainly adds a ton of value to the work. Plus maybe it would teach some of the armchair scaling experts why they are almost always wrong about what they "know" is a simple solution.
tptacek 16y ago
They are going to get flooded with job apps because they have a community of geek users who love them. It's actually another reason not to apply; supply/demand works in your favor right now almost everywhere else but at Reddit. Kind of the same reason you don't want to work for a game company.
- jedberg 16y ago
  That's a silly reason not to apply. If anything, you can feel good knowing that you beat the crowd.
  - tptacek 16y ago
    That's a great reason to apply if you suffer from the delusion that your time and effort are worth zero dollars. It's worth considerably more than that. I'm not knocking anyone for applying. I'm saying that many people will apply for reasons other than economics, which is going to distort the actual economics of applying. It's a good thing for Reddit.
    - jacquesm 16y ago
      I think plenty of people will solve this just for the fun of it, even if they're not interested in applying, maybe reddit is selecting for people that are not totally focused on how much their time is worth all the time.
      - tptacek 16y ago
        Oh, solve the puzzle. That'll take no time at all! It's the actually applying for a job bit that'll consume time and energy. We should do an Internet scavenger hunt in this style sometime. "The answer is the ASCII string formed by passing the result of A * B * C * D * E * F * G * H modulo I through SHA1 when the initial value of the SHA1 'a' register is J..."
        jacquesm 16y ago

by aresant 16y ago

jedberg 16y ago

This is all true. reddit is a great place to work if you want to learn a lot, get some great experience, and have a really strong influence on the product. But it is not a startup -- there is no big upside. And I don't think Hipmunk is hiring yet. :)

aresant 16y ago
It's funny, still hard for me to think of Reddit as not a start-up, but I guess I'm running at least two years behind - http://blog.reddit.com/2009/11/moving-to-cloud.html http://blog.reddit.com/2009/11/moving-to-cloud.html - :) Appreciate your response - hope you guys find somebody great and certainly HN is the right place to start.
akkartik 16y ago
I met the reddit guys for breakfast one day maybe six months ago. I had left my job, been hacking on a website for several months, launched. I was trying to show it to someone new in person everyday. I was trying for all sorts of people. By the time we finished breakfast, I blurted out, "So, y'all hiring?" They're just that cool. It doesn't always have to be a startup.
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- dpapathanasiou 16y ago
  So is readwarp your main thing now?
- jedberg 16y ago
  Aww shucks. Thanks! ps. Still looking for a job? :)
sanswork 16y ago
I think one of the better upsides is the chance for people to work at scale with a small team where they still have a lot of influence. I'm in the same position currently and it certainly adds a ton of value to the work. Plus maybe it would teach some of the armchair scaling experts why they are almost always wrong about what they "know" is a simple solution.

tptacek 16y ago

They are going to get flooded with job apps because they have a community of geek users who love them. It's actually another reason not to apply; supply/demand works in your favor right now almost everywhere else but at Reddit. Kind of the same reason you don't want to work for a game company.

jedberg 16y ago
That's a silly reason not to apply. If anything, you can feel good knowing that you beat the crowd.
- tptacek 16y ago
  That's a great reason to apply if you suffer from the delusion that your time and effort are worth zero dollars. It's worth considerably more than that. I'm not knocking anyone for applying. I'm saying that many people will apply for reasons other than economics, which is going to distort the actual economics of applying. It's a good thing for Reddit.
  - jacquesm 16y ago
    I think plenty of people will solve this just for the fun of it, even if they're not interested in applying, maybe reddit is selecting for people that are not totally focused on how much their time is worth all the time.
    - tptacek 16y ago
      Oh, solve the puzzle. That'll take no time at all! It's the actually applying for a job bit that'll consume time and energy. We should do an Internet scavenger hunt in this style sometime. "The answer is the ASCII string formed by passing the result of A * B * C * D * E * F * G * H modulo I through SHA1 when the initial value of the SHA1 'a' register is J..."
      - jacquesm 16y ago