Reddit Reviews

Pros

Amazing benefits Not so big that you disappear in the crowd Reddit invests in its people and their well being Lots of room to learn and grow and move up the ladder if you put the effort in Amazing remote policy and salary base Incredibly intelligent and supportive coworkers

Cons

Cons have come and gone as the company has grown. Currently - cant think of a huge con.

Pros

it's very special to be able to work alongside colleagues who truly believe in the overall company mission of bringing community & belonging to everyone in the world. coworkers are all genuinely nice and welcoming people who have fun. opportunities for growth and internal transfers within the company are excellent, especially for one of this size. management is genuinely TRYING to do the right thing (although they don't always succeed). we can have hard conversations constructively. recent high-profile executive hires have been strong and are acting as positive change-makers within the company. benefits & work/life balance are incredible.

Cons

prioritization is somewhat questionable - i don't always think we are working on the most important things. teams can be very siloed - for the size of the company (especially the product team), we should be more tightly integrated. tons of debt across various aspects - tech debt (we're still using some code from 15 years ago), product debt (we are sometimes too set in our ways), community debt (we don't do a great job working with and for our community and moderators). due to all this debt, overall velocity is slower than it should be. overall focus on quality should be much higher.

Pros

* You get to have real and meaningful impact on one of the largest platforms in the world. Feels completely unlike other FAANG companies where you’re practically a cog. You can truly make huge change here. * Benefits are really surprisingly good * Paying SF rates throughout the US is crazy good and rare * Very sharp people who are kind for the most part * Collaborating remotely has come very naturally to the company * A lot of the new tech and services at the company are pretty good * No details to give but the business trajectory of the company looks really good imo

Cons

* There’s been a turnaround in management it seems like, and theres some really great people who have come in recently, and also some really great people who are old school, but there are some people from kind of the middle years who seem to not be tremendous leaders. Depending on the org youre in, this can hurt more or less, but it really does seem like they are being more addressed these days and new hires are pretty strong. * Despite a lot of focus on D & I, the staff+ engineering group is hurting for representation from minority groups. There’s good work happening on D & I as far as inclusion goes I think, and a lot of the product work to combat harassment and abuse has made D & I feel a lot more internally authentic, but it hasn’t yet made its way into senior engineering, which is in need of it. * Some of the platform is truly ancient and a pain to develop in, either because users are stuck in their ways about it and we want to respect their wishes or because the technology is just hard to move away from * A lot of the platform is neglected in the name of metrics or just because the teams are broken up in a specific way that makes focusing on that piece of the platform hard Even with those cons I still really love working here and can’t imagine being anywhere else

Pros

Benefits are awesome Good work life balance

Cons

Reddit is a disaster of a company, where the most incompetent people can get jobs they aren't qualified to do, and get away with doing nothing for years. The biggest problem of this company is the management layer. It is unhealthy, inexperienced and full of people who are not capable of making any meaningful decisions. Bad behaviour is frequently rewarded by these people. Passive-aggressiveness is ingrained in the culture, especially if you ever put your hand up to say you have identified a problem and have a solution for it. They defend the status quo and prevent anyone from making any progress on the very severe issues this company has. They keep saying Reddit is a startup to justify the disorganization, but the reality is that this is a 15 year old company and not a startup. That is a sorry excuse for incompetence. Reddit has an inauthentic culture built on superficial values. It's like the old value 'Everyone does the dishes': sounds snazzy as a value but it was not grounded in truth. If anything, the output of most Reddit employees in minimal, especially compared to the equivalent in any other tech company. This is why it is such a culture shock to come here when your previous experience was in organizations where they had their act together and meaningful results were expected of you and your teams. Company values have been changed half a dozen times in recent years, which tells you leadership is aware of some of the issues. However, none of the institutional laziness will be solved by asking people to work hard but failing to put the right systems in place to have accountability, actual results grounded in sound data or even OKRs that mean something. This is hard work nobody in the leadership team is prepared to do. Maybe they are incapable of doing it. Maybe they don't realize how bad things are beyond the stories management makes up and tells the upper levels. Reddit has a people problem: They create toxicity, much like the toxicity that users of Reddit so vigorously spread and defend. As an entity, it cannot escape it. I would not recommend this company to anyone. It is a bad move, and you will learn nothing, and never ever be challenged to do your best work. Unfortunately, the CEO and Executives are not driving accountability nor setting expectations that accountability is how you become successful and retain the best talent. Reddit is a revolving door of good, talented people who move on as soon as they realize they are in the wrong place.