Pros
Benefits are awesome Good work life balance
Cons
Reddit is a disaster of a company, where the most incompetent people can get jobs they aren't qualified to do, and get away with doing nothing for years. The biggest problem of this company is the management layer. It is unhealthy, inexperienced and full of people who are not capable of making any meaningful decisions. Bad behaviour is frequently rewarded by these people. Passive-aggressiveness is ingrained in the culture, especially if you ever put your hand up to say you have identified a problem and have a solution for it. They defend the status quo and prevent anyone from making any progress on the very severe issues this company has. They keep saying Reddit is a startup to justify the disorganization, but the reality is that this is a 15 year old company and not a startup. That is a sorry excuse for incompetence. Reddit has an inauthentic culture built on superficial values. It's like the old value 'Everyone does the dishes': sounds snazzy as a value but it was not grounded in truth. If anything, the output of most Reddit employees in minimal, especially compared to the equivalent in any other tech company. This is why it is such a culture shock to come here when your previous experience was in organizations where they had their act together and meaningful results were expected of you and your teams. Company values have been changed half a dozen times in recent years, which tells you leadership is aware of some of the issues. However, none of the institutional laziness will be solved by asking people to work hard but failing to put the right systems in place to have accountability, actual results grounded in sound data or even OKRs that mean something. This is hard work nobody in the leadership team is prepared to do. Maybe they are incapable of doing it. Maybe they don't realize how bad things are beyond the stories management makes up and tells the upper levels. Reddit has a people problem: They create toxicity, much like the toxicity that users of Reddit so vigorously spread and defend. As an entity, it cannot escape it. I would not recommend this company to anyone. It is a bad move, and you will learn nothing, and never ever be challenged to do your best work. Unfortunately, the CEO and Executives are not driving accountability nor setting expectations that accountability is how you become successful and retain the best talent. Reddit is a revolving door of good, talented people who move on as soon as they realize they are in the wrong place.