> leave employees with a higher salary then they would have negotiated for somewhere else Only the below average ones. Above average employees would have been

> leave employees with a higher salary then they would have negotiated for somewhere else Only the below average ones. Above average employees would have been able to negotiate a higher salary/extras. Thus, higher quality employees will go work someplace else and not at Reddit. A quick list of what hiring B players leads to: lower team productivity (lowest common denominator), higher HR costs, poor culture fit, shitty workplace politics creeping into everything. Oh, and the A players you do have leave because FTS and stress.