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?

  • Kbin_space_program
    22•1 year ago

    An addendum to the non-devs here:
    As anyone who has worked in a large company knows: You can easily get a team like this that spends more than half of its time in meetings:
    1 Project Manager
    3 Business Analysts for different languages
    1 BA for tickets
    1 QA Lead
    2 QA Tester(Intern)
    1 Mockup Designer
    1 Front End layout specialist(CSS)
    1 Javascript developer
    1 Backend developer / Team Lead

    But that doesn’t factor in that with teams like that you can end up with 1/3 to even 2/3 of those dev teams being devoted to development and management of internal tools used to facilitate the end product, or that the project manager will be at the bottom of their own tree of people that spend almost all of their day in meetings. More if you make your own analysis tools.