What does Reddit staff engineer do? Is it like meta set direction and bunch of useless docs and no coding or it’s very hands on coding? @Reddit
You can find them on r/nsfw
A little bit of both plus guiding the juniors.
Wait. I was told by my meta mates, that Staff did a lot of coding. Are they wrong?
Infra, not so much. Product side, they have diff count metrics etc . What percentage of time staff folks at Reddit code, what’s the split between leadership and coding?
Moderate
What does Reddit staff level map to in terms of experience and responsibility compared to say, Meta or Google?
I worked there for a bit, and at least on my team, I can't really say there was a difference between a staff or a senior other than they had to offer some people that title to get them to join from elsewhere. One guy on my team was a react dev and was a "VP" somewhere and they made him staff.... He was nothing special as a dev. Its just a title and in their scale really nothing mattered until principal.
Why did you leave?
codebase was a shitshow you couldn't fix because politics of butthurt early reddit devs among other things (couple years ago when it was smaller, i'm told its better now, was there under 6 months) and someone I previously worked with offered me a higher level role I wanted to try.
In my org (Reddit X), very hands on coding
The majority do a lot of hands-on coding plus leading some projects (which will include designing it, writing it into a design doc and getting it reviewed, coordinating with other engineers in the project, etc). Some spend more time coordinating larger initiatives across teams, but I wouldn't say that's the norm but mostly them steering their role into that.
They just browse Reddit 🤔
It’s as funny as saying we browse Facebook and Instagram at Meta, it’s such a dad joke