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This makes me shiver in my boots. I couldn't imagine having to run that site myself. Neil is inline for a big pay raise.

redthrowaway 16y ago
He is, but he's only been there a couple months.
thezilch 16y ago
He doesn't run it himself. Reddit has two sysops and Amazon AWS staff. I won't pass judgement on Neil's performance or compensation -- we shouldn't speculate, but it'd be surprising to see a developer of only 4-5 months get a big raise.
- sokoloff 16y ago
  Supply and demand is an important factor. If CN demands the services of a developer with experience in the reddit codebase at reddit and the worldwide supply of developers able and willing to supply that need is only Neil, it wouldn't be unreasonable business to give him a raise, short tenure being somewhat irrelevant if that's the situation.
jedsmith 16y ago
That's a bit unfair to jedberg, who actually runs the site with his operations team of two (one of them a new hire). This article and the comments are putting far too much weight on the developer, as if Reddit is a site that's constantly iterating new features. That's not to downplay his contribution, but: * He was hired in November. * He works on code, and didn't get woken up during the last major downtime until the end (from their post mortem, presumably due to the DB eating itself). The word 'even' in "we *even* woke up spladug" is telling, that indicates to me that he doesn't wake up often. * Reddit is pretty much a done product, and the last features I can think of were meta (Gold comes to mind) He has a positive outlook[1], anyway, which the TechCrunch piece didn't seem to notice. Doing operations for a site the size of Reddit with a staff of 2, on AWS, is far more impressive to me. Keeping an operation like Reddit afloat in front of that many uniques must be a pretty significant challenge. There's not a lot of depth for on-call, so I feel for their sleep. On top of that, jedberg is the sole voice actively fighting for Reddit's reputation in public, since (let's be honest) the exodus looks a little suspect. Watching his comments[2] in the face of a perceivably sinking ship -- not to mention former employees who are saying quite a bit in front of an impressionable user base[3] -- is interesting, to say the least. They're definitely undergoing a challenge, and I'm interested to see how they come out of it. (Aside: Today has apparently been discuss-Reddit day, looking at my threads.) [1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_down_for_6_of_the_last_24_hours/c1l7i4m?context=1 http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_d... [2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/g6d7i/three_former_reddit_employees_ketralnis/c1lagp0 http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/g6d7i/three_form... [3]: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_down_for_6_of_the_last_24_hours/c1l6ykx http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_d...
- jarek 16y ago
  Sorry! I accidentally downvoted while intending to upvote. Tricksy fingers...

redthrowaway 16y ago

He is, but he's only been there a couple months.

thezilch 16y ago

He doesn't run it himself. Reddit has two sysops and Amazon AWS staff. I won't pass judgement on Neil's performance or compensation -- we shouldn't speculate, but it'd be surprising to see a developer of only 4-5 months get a big raise.

sokoloff 16y ago
Supply and demand is an important factor. If CN demands the services of a developer with experience in the reddit codebase at reddit and the worldwide supply of developers able and willing to supply that need is only Neil, it wouldn't be unreasonable business to give him a raise, short tenure being somewhat irrelevant if that's the situation.

jedsmith 16y ago

That's a bit unfair to jedberg, who actually runs the site with his operations team of two (one of them a new hire). This article and the comments are putting far too much weight on the developer, as if Reddit is a site that's constantly iterating new features. That's not to downplay his contribution, but: * He was hired in November. * He works on code, and didn't get woken up during the last major downtime until the end (from their post mortem, presumably due to the DB eating itself). The word 'even' in "we *even* woke up spladug" is telling, that indicates to me that he doesn't wake up often. * Reddit is pretty much a done product, and the last features I can think of were meta (Gold comes to mind) He has a positive outlook[1], anyway, which the TechCrunch piece didn't seem to notice. Doing operations for a site the size of Reddit with a staff of 2, on AWS, is far more impressive to me. Keeping an operation like Reddit afloat in front of that many uniques must be a pretty significant challenge. There's not a lot of depth for on-call, so I feel for their sleep. On top of that, jedberg is the sole voice actively fighting for Reddit's reputation in public, since (let's be honest) the exodus looks a little suspect. Watching his comments[2] in the face of a perceivably sinking ship -- not to mention former employees who are saying quite a bit in front of an impressionable user base[3] -- is interesting, to say the least. They're definitely undergoing a challenge, and I'm interested to see how they come out of it. (Aside: Today has apparently been discuss-Reddit day, looking at my threads.) [1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_down_for_6_of_the_last_24_hours/c1l7i4m?context=1 http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_d... [2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/g6d7i/three_former_reddit_employees_ketralnis/c1lagp0 http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/g6d7i/three_form... [3]: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_down_for_6_of_the_last_24_hours/c1l6ykx http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_d...

jarek 16y ago
Sorry! I accidentally downvoted while intending to upvote. Tricksy fingers...