A new team at Reddit

Re:A new team at Reddit by teacup50 on Thursday November 13, 2014 @05:35PM (#8604609)

This is a hopelessly naive position to hold, and it's also a one likely to be dangerous to your career — believing in openness so blindly is how you're going to be blind-sided.

An "open" culture is open unless the folks who actually are in charge have a good reason for it not to be. As someone who has been behind the closed doors, I guarantee that you have no idea what occurred behind them.

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Re:A new team at Reddit by ryanmerket on Thursday November 13, 2014 @05:40PM (#8604637)

Openness isn't the only reason. I'm also pretty close with Yishan (pre-reddit) and Ellen is my direct supervisor and sits across from me. Sure there might have been other small issues, but office location was a large point of contention internally. So this being the underlying part of Yishan's resignation makes sense.

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Re:A new team at Reddit by teacup50 on Thursday November 13, 2014 @05:41PM (#8604641)

Nobody (sane) resigns solely over office location planning. They would, however, resign over the politics that drove their proposal being dismissed.

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