"I worked with reddit but are there any questions?" Former employee arrives at the former workplace

By▓▒░ TORLEY ░ ▒ ▓

Social news siteRedditThen,A thread in which celebrities such as Bill Gates respond to questionsThere are times when it stands. Such a thread is called "AMA (Ask Me Anything)", but former employee dehrmann who worked as an advertising related engineer at reddit from July 2013 to March 2014 set up an AMA thread , I answered various questions.

I am a former reddit employee. AMA.: IAmA
https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2iea97/i_am_a_former_reddit_employee_ama/

◆ Q: Do you think that it was good to work at reddit?

A:
I think that many colleagues including me were a good working environment. I keep in touch with them after retirement, but I do not think I will work again with reddit.

◆ Q: Reddit's mascot character's "SnooDo you really exist?


A:
There are plenty of snoo stuffed animals on the company, but I'd like to see real snoo someday.

◆ Q: How much did reddit pay you?

A:
I can live well in San Francisco, but it is lower than general standards. However, because there is a stock option system and it is small in scale, it is an experienced IT company with a high-profile name, so you can think that you are "career-up of career change".

◆ Q: If you point one reddit's managerial side, what would you choose?

A:
Why is openness so luxurious? Many of the community and product problems are solved well with the cooperation of employees. That was very good, but I felt a little political background from occasional occasional mixing of orders from outside.

◆ Q: If you use reddit everyday, do your boss pay attention to you?

A:
Rather, my boss will definitely encourage me to use reddit. Sometimes I was walking around the thread for nearly 6 hours.

◆ Q: Thank you for AMA. Where are you working now?

A:
SpotifyI am working at! I was amazed at Spotify 's superior technical capabilities, but I have a very strong business team beyond that and I have been building partnerships with labels one after another.


◆ Q: Which subreddit (board) did you spend the most time?

A:
"/ R / politics(Political board) ". The keyword was about wasted (wasted), but I do not remember which thread it was.

◆ Q: Did your experience working with reddit help you in the future step up?

A:
definitelyPython(Python) 's skill has improved and it is useful even for my current job. I think that understanding how to maintain a good community can be maintained by respecting community management skills and management consciousness in the experience of working.

◆ Q: Zuckerberg says "older than 30 is not useful", but is it true that age will be an issue in the IT industry?

ByFrederik Hermann

A:
To do him justice, they say things in mathematics and physics. Engineers over 30 years old are good at building systems and are good at finding pitfalls that young engineers tend to miss, but I'm not good at redoing things that are obvious. Taking Gmail as an example, someone over the age of 30 says, "My IMAP mail client works normally, why do you need to redevelop? However, someone in their 20s focuses on "why do we need to install a mail client?", "A server that does not support IMAP", "a spam filter with poor performance". Because of the shift in platforms such as mobile desktop web, companies may also focus on people who can redevelop.

◆ Q: What is the biggest problem you think reddit?

A:
Some problems are formed by a team of professional staff, but if it is still untouched, there is a front page problem. In subreddit classified as 25, many thread duplications composed of a small number of people are born and it becomes a problem for those who utilize the registration function of subreddit. With its own communities and rules born for each subreddit, we can not improve the front page.

◆ Q: Please tell us the most disliked part about recent reddit

A:
As for the company, reddit is in a branch point of two ways of leaving it to a non-profit organization like Wikimedia or switching to profit-oriented type. Reddit's employees are worried about the future, as it depends to a large extent on what kind of project they will be working on in the future. Regarding websites, I do not dislike it, but I do not like subreddit style sheets so much, so I disable it on my account. I think that mail system is also difficult to use.

◆ Q: It is a serious question, what should I do when I am not doing reddit?

By▓▒░ TORLEY ░ ▒ ▓

A:
In my case, I actually got out of reddit poisoning by challenging something different, such as playing guitar, cooking, going to the gym, sleeping and so on. After six months the reddit spent about 30 minutes a day. I think it is necessary to cut off addiction.