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The biggest question I have is: why are so many people leaving Reddit? Over the past few months, the site has grown continuously yet the people that have been
by eggbrain 15y ago
The biggest question I have is: why are so many people leaving Reddit?
Over the past few months, the site has grown continuously yet the people that have been the driving force of the site seem to be leaving just as the site is hitting its peak. What has changed?
- Hovertruck 15y agoThere's a lot to be said for wanting to work in small teams. I know the growth isn't that dramatic, but it's perfectly reasonable to step away and start something new if the new environment isn't ideal for you.
- brown9-2 15y agoI think it might actually be a different aspect of having (or having had) a small team: that the churn over time is more noticeable when the number of employees is just a handful. Jedberg has been with reddit for over 4 years, as he mentions.
- wccrawford 15y agoMaybe nothing has changed other than the obvious. People who work for small companies tend to do so because they like it. The same goes for those who work for big companies. Reddit is not a small company any more. The massive growth would have brought a lot of internal changes. It doesn't surprise me that people are out seeking what they like again.
- scott_s 15y agoHuh? The "massive growth" has been in traffic. I thought they had less than 10 employees.
- sharth 15y agoThat's correct. But they were bought by Conde Nast.
- zacharycohn 15y agoFive years ago. http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/31/breaking-news-conde-nastwired-acquires-reddit/ http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/31/breaking-news-conde-nastwir...
- benedikt 15y agoMore bandwidth and users have probably made it a very stressful job for ~5 people.
- smiler 15y agoMaybe a big cash bonus got triggered if they stayed on for a certain period of time when Reddit was acquired
- runinit 15y agoI think Jedberg is leaving because he values his marriage over reddit. He kinda hints at that in his blog post.
- nowarninglabel 15y agoI agree, also this: http://imgur.com/tTQQ5 http://imgur.com/tTQQ5 He truly is bad ass.
- dailo10 15y agoHe has one of the most difficult, stressful jobs scaling one of the most heavily trafficked sites in the world. And I'm sure the bitching and moaning whenever there's downtime doesn't help.
- astrodust 15y agoUnder-funded, over-loaded, filled with hyper-critical users and entire armies of abusers. Sounds like a great job! Anyone who's stuck that out for years is a hero.
- jedberg 15y agoSomeone sent me a cape once, but it didn't fit. To be honest, none of those things by themselves really bothered me. But I supposed the sum total of it always dragged on my subconscience.
- mitchty 15y agoMaybe he just wants to move on to new opportunities. It happens, I wouldn't look too hard into it. Maybe he thinks his job there is now "done" and wants tot do something else. I never attribute to malice what can be just plain simple, "I've done all I set out to do here and more" feelings.
- daviding 15y agoA four year vesting period is typical. Like he mentioned, he's just gone over four years.
- rms 15y agoAverage-ish salaries with much higher than average work expectations. Basically the only perk of the job is that you're working on Reddit, but it seems obvious that there's a lot of extra stress involved.
- ulvund 15y agoIt's a high stress low pay job
- redthrowaway 15y agoI'll give you high stress, but I doubt it was low-paying. When they were doing their hiring rounds they said applicants with experience would be making six figures, so I'm sure their chief architect wasn't exactly starving.