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by bobbob1921 1523 days ago
I understand your point, but scale also applies to reddits resources and number of developers / options, so I disagree with this reasoning/excuse.
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You might be surprised at how small the Reddit team is
They keep raising money. Might as well hire more and pay better. I'm blown away that after nearly 2 decades, search is effectively unfunded at this company.
> Might as well hire more and pay better

Would you want to work there? I suspect a lot of great candidates want nothing to do with that company.

If they paid competitively, yes.
Scale isn't a linear kind of problem though. The complexity, if not carefully managed, in my experience grows faster than linearly.

I always see Salesforce as a huge company with tons of resources whose products struggle frequently.

This is what Reddit did. Just because you can throw developers and resources at a problem, does not make that problem basic.