When they said Reddit has 2000 employees I was shocked. what could they possibly do onto a website that is basically run by users (and sysadmins) and that is basically feature-wise mature? I really can’t figure out 2000 people working every day on Reddit… on what? just for a quick comparison, the whole IAmA was run by a single person (Victoria), so… what are they doing?

  • @guy@lemmy.world
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    51 year ago

    Diminishing returns. The more employees you add, the harder they are to manage efficiently and in-sync. You need to add more managers to manage more employees, which adds more layers and fragments the business more.

    However, the numbers still don’t add up to me. The app shouldn’t be worse than 3rd party apps. The website shouldn’t have all these downtime issues. The website shouldn’t be an accessibility failure.

    • AggressivelyPassive
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      31 year ago

      Of those 2000 people, at least 1000 are not in technical roles at all, but stuff like partner management, HR, marketing, etc.

      What exactly the rest is doing, I’m also baffled. I guess, they primarily reinvent wheels. Reddit is relatively easy to scale and has been in its core not changed for years.