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They had 700 staff 2 years ago, which is really what raises giant questions to me.

There's very little I can think of that seems to have changed about the site in the last 2 years for results from tripling their headcount.

Citation for the old headcount: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/9/22274077/reddit-funding-ro...




low interest rates, easy to hire and scale.

Granted, I have no idea what scalability Reddit has done in 2 years. You can even argue it didn't need most of it (some, sure. Pandemic did surge traffic).




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