<story><title>After raising $50M, Reddit forces all remote workers to relocate to SF</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/01/after-raising-50m-reddit-forces-remote-workers-to-relocate-to-sf-or-get-fired/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think this convo is entirely fair to Yishan. While I&amp;#x27;m not familiar with Reddit&amp;#x27;s tech stack or management policies, I can&amp;#x27;t say they have been a shining example of a remote engineering team. For a site that is simply some text and comments, they have a staggering amount of downtime and timeouts.&lt;p&gt;Whatever they were doing before didn&amp;#x27;t seem to be working and maybe getting everyone in one place is the fix to that (not to say a remote team doesn&amp;#x27; work, as GitHub gets along just fine).</text></item><item><author>gk1</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s the Twitter conversation between DHH and Yishan Wong, as of right now:&lt;p&gt;DHH: Story I heard about Reddit post-$50M investment includes everyone not in San Francisco getting 1 week to decide whether to move or GTFO. o.0&lt;p&gt;Yishan Wong: Yes, we are relocating ppl back to SF w&amp;#x2F;generous relo package &amp;amp; COL adjustment, +3mos severance for anyone who can’t make the move, and no, the timeline for the move is not 1 week, but through the end of the year.  Decision was also independent of fundraising.&lt;p&gt;DHH: Very sad to hear. Especially for a company like Reddit that&amp;#x27;s all about bringing people together for causes regardless of location. Also, are you claiming that there never was a deadline of 1 week? That it was &amp;quot;through end of year&amp;quot; from the beginning?&lt;p&gt;Yishan: Intention is to get whole team under one roof for optimal teamwork. Our goal is to retain 100% of the team.&lt;p&gt;DHH: Hey, at least the shit sandwich comes with a smile and a thank you. Guess everything is peachy then.&lt;p&gt;Yishan: Originally we asked for decision in 2 weeks but realized almost immediately that was too short and extended the timeline to EOY.&lt;p&gt;DHH: Man, that is some cruel shit. Was that such that you could have a full headcount before the $50M check cleared?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fleaflicker</author><text>&lt;i&gt;For a site that is simply some text and comments, they have a staggering amount of downtime and timeouts.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;At reddit&amp;#x27;s scale, it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter what they&amp;#x27;re serving. The challeneges of serving that many pageviews are significant.</text></comment>
<story><title>After raising $50M, Reddit forces all remote workers to relocate to SF</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/01/after-raising-50m-reddit-forces-remote-workers-to-relocate-to-sf-or-get-fired/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think this convo is entirely fair to Yishan. While I&amp;#x27;m not familiar with Reddit&amp;#x27;s tech stack or management policies, I can&amp;#x27;t say they have been a shining example of a remote engineering team. For a site that is simply some text and comments, they have a staggering amount of downtime and timeouts.&lt;p&gt;Whatever they were doing before didn&amp;#x27;t seem to be working and maybe getting everyone in one place is the fix to that (not to say a remote team doesn&amp;#x27; work, as GitHub gets along just fine).</text></item><item><author>gk1</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s the Twitter conversation between DHH and Yishan Wong, as of right now:&lt;p&gt;DHH: Story I heard about Reddit post-$50M investment includes everyone not in San Francisco getting 1 week to decide whether to move or GTFO. o.0&lt;p&gt;Yishan Wong: Yes, we are relocating ppl back to SF w&amp;#x2F;generous relo package &amp;amp; COL adjustment, +3mos severance for anyone who can’t make the move, and no, the timeline for the move is not 1 week, but through the end of the year.  Decision was also independent of fundraising.&lt;p&gt;DHH: Very sad to hear. Especially for a company like Reddit that&amp;#x27;s all about bringing people together for causes regardless of location. Also, are you claiming that there never was a deadline of 1 week? That it was &amp;quot;through end of year&amp;quot; from the beginning?&lt;p&gt;Yishan: Intention is to get whole team under one roof for optimal teamwork. Our goal is to retain 100% of the team.&lt;p&gt;DHH: Hey, at least the shit sandwich comes with a smile and a thank you. Guess everything is peachy then.&lt;p&gt;Yishan: Originally we asked for decision in 2 weeks but realized almost immediately that was too short and extended the timeline to EOY.&lt;p&gt;DHH: Man, that is some cruel shit. Was that such that you could have a full headcount before the $50M check cleared?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dataminer</author><text>Do you have data on reddit&amp;#x27;s downtime to backup your claim? &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/redditstatus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;redditstatus&lt;/a&gt; shows the last downtime was on April 9th, and that was scheduled.</text></comment>