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?

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    1 year ago

    100% agree, here’s some more departments that you haven’t listed but probably exist:

    • Legal, internal contracts, contracts with suppliers, contracts with customers (advertisers), compliance with the laws of many countries/markets

    • Regulatory, compliance with internal and external regulations

    • Procurement, negotiating with suppliers

    • sustainability, there’s probably someone in the business reporting on gender balance and environmental impact and a host of other UN SDG considerations

    • PMO, internal project management and portfolio reporting

    • market X, there may be a team of people for each major market responsible for sales, infrastructure, compliance, etc. in that market, in addition to central

    • CI/productivity, there will be some team responsible for reducing costs

    • Product owners, there will be teams of people responsible for arguing about what features/bugs should be implemented/fixed

    • monetization, there’s probably dedicated teams looking at (and a/b testing!) new ways to push people into spending money on the app and/or interacting with ads more often