TOXIC Beware - Anonymous employee Reddit Employee Review

Hi, I'm Katelin, the VP of People & Culture. This is not representative of Reddit's culture in any of our offices, the example set by our execs, or our values as a company. While we have reorganized a few teams recently (and I am sorry that you clearly had a negative experience with that), this review is simply not a fair or honest assessment of the company that would line up with the experience of the overwhelming majority of other employees over the past few years. First, we absolutely support our Snoos with kids and have consistently *extended* our parental leave year after year (and encouraged people to take more of it), our family expansion benefits (like fertility treatments and adoption stipends), and other work across the org to make sure every parent who works at Reddit has the support they need above and beyond what other companies offer. It's a shame to see all of those benefits reduced to one throwaway pro of "pet care." In terms of diversity & inclusion (particularly for women on our product and engineering teams), we've worked to ensure that our compensation is fair, that we're tracking data on how equitably employees are compensated and promoted after they join across teams, that we have women leaders especially on the product and eng side of our org, and that every person has a voice at the company—through employee resource groups (for Snoos who are women, LGBTQIA+, people of color, and/or belonging to other underrepresented groups) and making sure our CEO and other executives (40% of whom are women) are easily accessible and open to regular feedback, good and bad. The idea that we're afraid of "thought-provoking ideas" doesn't line up with our actual culture either—like our regular Snoo's Week tradition, where we explicitly invite employees to take a week to focus on a new project that's completely different from their day-to-day work. (Many of these projects, created entirely from individual employees' ideas, have been built into fully fledged features that are now a part of the official site/app.) Seeking out thought-provoking ideas is part of our value, Evolve, and it'd be pretty ironic if a platform built on supporting thoughtful discussions didn't welcome them in our own office. I don't expect to change your mind, but I hope that prospective applicants know that at Reddit, we are all about having transparency, encouraging honest assessments at every level of the company, and remembering the human (whether that's parents, women engineers, people on teams that have been re-organized, et al). —Katelin Holloway, VP of People & Culture