But Reddit is a company with a laundry list of PR crises, with an office in one of the most expensive cities in the world, constantly changing leadership, constantly changing leadership goals, extremely dissatisfied investors, an estranged and angry founder, AND a reputation for underpaying engineers.
Ten bucks says they file a complaint somewhere stating "their aren't enough developers in the work force".
I'm one of those investors and I'm not aware of any of my fellow investors being dissatisfied.
> an estranged and angry founder
All of the founders currently work for reddit (and are quite happy doing so as far as I know). Who are you talking about here?
Articles like this [1] seem to indicate tension between the board and leadership. I assume when any such tensions become public that they are larger in reality then they first appear, because normally such tensions remain private. Though in this case it may just be Wong's and Reddit's board's personality to be more open about such things.
It's pretty liberal for me to make these assumptions, granted. And I've made like a dozen comments on this thread mostly because:
A) my procrastination is terrible today and
B) I'm a rabid Reddit user and usually speak up whenever it comes up on Hacker News, I'm not be trying to gun down the company's throat I promise, just trying to engage in a critical discussion.
I would change extremely dissatisfied to dissatisfied though, but the edit option isn't appearing to me right now (time limit or "tree-weight" I guess).
[1]:http://gawker.com/former-reddit-ceo-youre-all-screwed-171790...
I don't doubt that there's a laundry list of corporate dysfunction at Reddit HQ, but even the most seemingly universal complaints I see people post about seem more like collaborative storytelling exercises where a bunch of people are getting each other worked up into a frothy rage over stuff that just really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. The pitchforks-and-torches mob mentality I've occasionally seen on Reddit is way more damaging to those communities than anything I've ever heard of regarding the company leadership.
"Reddit board member and YC president Sam Altman announced that Yishan Wong was leaving after being unable to garner support for a proposal to move the Reddit office from San Francisco to Daly City.[12] Wong, who thought newer employees would prefer to work in a less expensive area, stated that before the disagreement he had considered leaving due to an abundance of stress."[1]
[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yishan_Wong
Edit:
That quote is a little disingenuous, and you can read more about the situation in these links if you're curious. The Quora link is the ex-CEOs response which puts a good frame on things.
[2]:http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/13/ex-reddit-ceo-wanted-to-mov...
[3]https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Yishan-Wong-resign-as-Reddit-C...
Edit2: It's also telling just how many people were championing Ellen Pao as the replacement. I have to think nobody really knows who'll be a good CEO until after the fact.
