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The skill-level of others is actually quite intimidating, especially if you have just started and aren't sure what you're doing yet. The codebase is very large and many simple tasks are actually non-trivial due to the fact that you'll be serving millions of users and your code needs to be polished and scalable before a release. Be prepared to learn a lot (even if you think you already know a lot), and if that doesn't sound like a challenge you're interested in, you almost certainly wouldn't want to be working here.

Navigating the codebase is like dissecting a dried piece of turd that's been sitting on the side of the road for 10 years. (and that's basically what it is). Especially the Front End. It's horrible. It has a decade's worth of horrible dev practices at every level baked in. It's too big to change now. Look up "avoid prop drilling principle" on react. Prepare to see it violated on a level that belongs on the Epstein list. We're talking 20 arguments passed through every function, 5 functions in a chain. There's a reason the reddit page is like non-stop "This stopped working" "That stopped working"... It's 1000 of some of the best engineers in the world using their mind to construct an elaborate maze of duct tape to hold together a rotting architecture... and they can't fix it. They are trying to build AI features on top to stay relevant but we are hearing the structure begin to start creaking, every other day is an incident. --- The 'Coach' management system is hit or miss. You will regularly get coaches that are great developers, but terrible at reading people or communicating expectations. ---