Reddit CEO Says Recent Graduates Are More “AI Native” Than Their Elders, Plans to Ramp Up Campus Recruiting

According to 1M AI News monitoring, Reddit Co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman stated on the Sourcery with Molly O'Shea podcast that the company will "aggressively" recruit recent graduates because they are "much more native to AI" than the older generation.

"The kids who are coming out of college now have been programming with AI, and they're really good at it," Huffman said. "Old folks like me are reluctant to give up hand-coding. I eventually gave up. The young kids don't have that baggage; they just code with AI directly." He explicitly stated that AI will not reduce the size of the company's engineering team.

Huffman warned that not hiring recent graduates would be a costly mistake: "If you don't bring them in at graduation, you'll never see them. They're too valuable and won't be on the job market again." Employers need to snatch them up immediately, or else they'll have to pay 100 times the price in the future. Reddit is currently valued at $26.7 billion.