> Do you find yourself browsing Reddit in your spare time or do you avoid it?
I personally still spend plenty of time reading stuff on the site, both educational (r/askhistorians, various programming subreddits) and entertainment (r/popular). I'll definitely tend to avoid the more meta subreddits when not in a work mood though.
> Do you ever find yourself spending whole days at work without being on the site because you don't want to be distracted while working on something?
Oh yeah, it definitely happens: heads down in code, doing a complex series of deploys, or just in a bunch of meetings.
There's also the times where I go to check on the site to check on something I deployed and instead get distracted by something on the front page and forget what I was doing. Oops.
I'd like to pose a follow up question; as your role at the company has progressed, do you feel your day to day (collective you, the [a]'s) is less development oriented and more social management of the different issues that arise when a community gets that large?
Actually quite the opposite. One of the benefits of being a larger company is separation of concerns. Our community team is a bunch of fantastic people that are focused on that side of things and engineering spend most of its time writing code. Obviously there will be overlap from time to time, but it's definitely way less than when we were 10 people.
When you are an employee of Reddit you obviously spend a lot of time on Reddit.
1. How does this affect your life outside of work. Do you find yourself browsing Reddit in your spare time or do you avoid it?
2. Do you ever find yourself spending whole days at work without being on the site because you don't want to be distracted while working on something?