Reddit's CEO said employees had a tendency to put big-picture idealism before business.

  • Reddit’s CEO said that when he returned in 2015, he had to remind employees to work hard.

  • There’s a tendency in the US tech industry to place idealism above hard work, he said.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    24 hours ago

    I was idealistic at my current place. Then my manager and another key person left, and it all went out the window. Even when they were here, I was still more idealistic than was realistic. But my manager helped channel that.

    Now I feel betrayed and sidelined and stifled. Disillusioned. Totally unnecessary too.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      111·
      17 hours ago

      I joined a company a decade ago thinking “meh” but discovered a fantastic work env. The mandate changed: make XYZ suck less. That’s it. It was kinda a startup within a stuffy 100-year-old setup. And yeah, we worked like freed slaves. But then, same, the stuffy people wanted to helm the awesome, committed a coup, and installed feckless morons on place of our command team.

      Soooo I left, along with about half the staff. It wasnt idealism so much as an environment of respect and support, but it fell apart fast when the good people were tossed.