Reddit's CEO said employees had a tendency to put big-picture idealism before business.

  • Reddit’s CEO said that when he returned in 2015, he had to remind employees to work hard.

  • There’s a tendency in the US tech industry to place idealism above hard work, he said.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    153·
    2 months ago

    Idealistic people work harder than anyone—for idealistic causes.

    They don’t work so hard for companies that betray their idealism.

    • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      I was idealistic at my current place. Then my manager and another key person left, and it all went out the window. Even when they were here, I was still more idealistic than was realistic. But my manager helped channel that.

      Now I feel betrayed and sidelined and stifled. Disillusioned. Totally unnecessary too.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    2 months ago

    It’s always funny seeing these silicon valley startups have essentially zero retained employees and engineers except the CEO.

    All money machines built on the backs of long gone engineers that only exist because they’ve cornered their share of the oligopoly market.

    • Zenith@lemm.ee
      5·
      2 months ago

      They just outright ban people now. Been a Reddit user with zero problems for well over a decade, like 13 years, I’m now banned completely for upvoting Luigi content and saying I was surprised Kanye hadn’t murder/suicided Kim or Taylor yet which is apparently promoting violence. They’re really going out of their way to purge users.

  • alekwithak@lemmy.world
    27·
    2 months ago

    I bet his yearly salary he can’t name a single facet of what he is referring to as ‘work’ and has no earthly idea how the tech behind Reddit works or is maintained.

  • brendansimms@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 months ago

    I assume the rest of his sentiment goes something like: ‘not working very hard…to increase shareholder value’

    • GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world
      15·
      2 months ago

      Was going to say that. Reddit has become a Nazi heaven and center of Zionism. Never thought I had to put these two word together. Now here we are.

  • Stern@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 months ago

    Was that the same idealism that led to the jailbait and creepshot subreddits being allowed to flourish? Or Covid misinfo? Deepfakes? The chimpire? Qanon? All that stuff definitely wasn’t operating clandestinely.

  • TomMasz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    He got how much for ruining the site and profiting off years of its users’ work?

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    Spez maybe should have worked harder at not destroying both shareholder value and the trust of the people that actually made the site what it was.

    Like who is he working for here, because it doesn’t seem like anyone’s pleased about him

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Feature-wise I feel Lemmy is nearly identical to Reddit. The biggest advantage Reddit has is the communities and they’ve been basically hacking away at them for over a year.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 months ago

        Hey that’s not fair. Reddit has been working hard at making itself more closed and on giving it a far shittier UI

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        except it has pretty repressive policies around moderation, more than any other social media, like they have a whole apparatus built around bans, and ban evasion. trying to use a different account with different ip and proxies, is very difficult.