• marcos@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    6 months ago

    That R&D budget means reddit has thousands of people working on software engineering. That’s some 1/10 of the headcount of the likes of Microsoft and Google.

    Even the sales and marketing line, although it should be the largest one by a huge margin, I fail to see where reddit is spending it. Have you ever seen a reddit ad?

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      6 months ago

      thousands of people working on software engineering

      Doing fucking what?

      Have you ever seen a reddit ad?

      All the time (possible you don’t see them because of ad blockers etc). I just opened the front page and the fourth result was:

      “Hey Reddit, there are r/nostupidquestions, so we want to know: What’s your decision making process before entering a trade? Walk us through your method in the comments. (tastylive.com)”

      I honestly can’t make sense of it and I don’t want to know.

      • marcos@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        6 months ago

        All the time

        It’s always good to have my personal bubble burst, thanks.

        So yeah, they should be spending a lot of money on that line. Looks like they are.

        • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          6 months ago

          Yeah, $124m for marketing doesn’t strike me as instantly unreasonable, if they’re managing to bring in $242m in ad revenue from ads that I literally have never once wanted to click on that are so poorly presented that my brain literally filters them out

          Research and development and admin, on the other hand, I would have some questions about, if I’d spent money on the stock and was supposed to be receiving a return on my investment