Reddit Recap Recap
Maybe you never considered measuring the distance you doomscroll in bananas, or how many times it could’ve taken you to the moon, but Reddit has! Reddit Recap 2022 was a personalized celebration of all the meme-able moments from the year. In this episode, you’ll hear how Reddit Recap 2022 came together from Reddit employees from Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Marketing. We go in depth into how the UI was built, how the data was aggregated, and how that awesome Times Square 3D advertisement came together. Check out all the open positions at Reddit on our careers site: https://www.redditinc.com/careers Join the conversation at: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng
7 Feb 20231h 6min
r/fixthevideoplayer
Video is huge on Reddit, but the video player needed some love. In 2022, teams at Reddit used a novel way to fix it, bringing in the community. A new community, r/fixthevideoplayer was born and after some intense bug-fixing, the video player saw massive improvements. In this episode, we hear how the initiative came together and what engineering used to fix the biggest issues in the video player. Check out all the open positions at Reddit on our careers site: https://www.redditinc.com/careers Join the conversation at: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng
7 Feb 202343min
Working@Reddit: Engineering Manager
You’d never guess it from all the memes, but Reddit has a lot of very talented and serious people who build the platform you know and love. Managing the Software Engineers who write, deploy, and maintain the code that powers Reddit is a tough job. In this episode, I talk to Kelly Hutchison, an Engineering Manager on the Conversation Experiences. We discuss her day-to-day work life, the features her team has released, and her feline overlords. Check out all the open positions at Reddit on our careers site: https://www.redditinc.com/careers Join the conversation at: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng
7 Feb 202324min
Trailer
Welcome to Building Reddit, hosted by Ryan H. Lewis. Ryan is a software engineer at Reddit, and he's fascinated by the inner workings of the platform. Reddit's mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. In this podcast, Ryan will take you behind the scenes into how Reddit is built. From some of the coolest projects like Reddit Recap and Collectible Avatars, to the daily work lives of Reddit's employees. You’ll hear from software engineers, product managers, data scientists, community managers, marketers, and more! So make sure to subscribe to the podcast. New episodes come out monthly. And you can join the discussion on our engineering blog at reddit.com/r/RedditEng.
22 Jan 202359s
