• marcos@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That R&D budget means reddit has thousands of people working on software engineering. That’s some 1/10 of the headcount of the likes of Microsoft and Google.

    Even the sales and marketing line, although it should be the largest one by a huge margin, I fail to see where reddit is spending it. Have you ever seen a reddit ad?

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      2 months ago

      thousands of people working on software engineering

      Doing fucking what?

      Have you ever seen a reddit ad?

      All the time (possible you don’t see them because of ad blockers etc). I just opened the front page and the fourth result was:

      “Hey Reddit, there are r/nostupidquestions, so we want to know: What’s your decision making process before entering a trade? Walk us through your method in the comments. (tastylive.com)”

      I honestly can’t make sense of it and I don’t want to know.