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It's easy to forget how many pies they have their fingers in, between core Reddit (which includes all the user facing stuff plus mod tools, admin staff, etc), t
by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
It's easy to forget how many pies they have their fingers in, between core Reddit (which includes all the user facing stuff plus mod tools, admin staff, etc), their own image and video hosting services, chat, and their mobile client, plus their ad business, which requires sales and marketing, ad ops, billing, etc. And that's just the obvious stuff off the top of my head. Then there's all the usual corporate infrastructure, i.e. management/admin, hr, finance, compliance, etc.
2k people is a lot of people but I wouldn't underestimate how much there is to their business.
Think of it this way: Elon cut Twitter to the bone and they still have 1500 staff, IIRC, and I'd argue Reddit is at least as complex.
- ChainOfFools 3y agoYou do make good points, I suppose all of the acquisitions they have made over the past number of years add up, in addition to entertaining foolish dead ends like blockchain integration and essentially anything Ryan X Cohen had to say. That said Elon Musk has not acquired reddit, and thus did not cut it to the bone similarly to Twitter. Had that happened perhaps it would be down somewhere around 500 staff. Which still feels subjectively about sufficient for what the product does. But I suppose one of the enduring realities of tech hiring, or any corporate hiring is that above a certain size people's careers are not advanced by managing small, tightly run and efficient teams but rather by sitting atop as bloated a pyramidal hierarchy as possible, with a budget to match.