Out of curiosity I went to an on-site interview there, because it would be fun to work at a site I felt so strongly about. I was never more turned off from working at place as I was when I went. They weren’t horrible at all, but there was this level of arrogance that I didn’t enjoy, plus a level of complete unreadiness. Some of the teams I talked to were completely understaffed and the “old timers” felt detached. It seemed like they aren’t solving the problems that users want solved, and are driven by this alternate goal of “increasing engagement” even though they are one of the top sites on the Internet. Instead of making subreddits easier for moderators to manage and make better, they are taking an orthogonal route that benefits them but doesn’t help the real content creators on Reddit. It was very disappointing.
I got an offer but it was a “take it or leave it” one, so I left it.