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Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review

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Post by jrockway »

htp wrote: post #89
icco wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are based in San Luis Obispo, CA, and I have met a few people that work there. It's interesting to hear all of the complaints from people who work there right out of college (Cal Poly is near by). Apparently they are not very nice to their developers and many burn out after a year and quit.

Speaking as a former straight-to-EE-out-of-college employee: I didn't experience any of the "not very nice"-ness you're referring to- my coworkers there were and are actually really nice folks. I did, however, leave because of burnout.

Did you get an office, free food, an on-site gym, etc., etc.? If not, then that's what people call "not very nice" these days, at least for programmers.

Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review

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Post by htp »

jrockway wrote: post #91
htp wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking as a former straight-to-EE-out-of-college employee: I didn't experience any of the "not very nice"-ness you're referring to- my coworkers there were and are actually really nice folks. I did, however, leave because of burnout.

Did you get an office, free food, an on-site gym, etc., etc.? If not, then that's what people call "not very nice" these days, at least for programmers.

I didn't get a personal office, but barring a handful of individuals, nobody did. Everyone worked in shared space. No cubes though- just adjoining desks, grouped by department.

Everyone got free snacks and drinks, and free lunches delivered to the office on Fridays. There wasn't an on-site gym, but the company paid for memberships to a local gym. There was also the beginning of a game room with a ping-pong table, a foosball table, and a dartboard.

The perks were by no means Google-scale, but they were nice nonetheless.

Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review

#94

Post by fleitz »

danilocampos wrote: post #27

It's impressive to me that when the great minds behind Experts Exchange make their voice known, they talk just like the kind of slimeballs you would expect behind such an operation. It's shameless. In their shoes, I'd just sit there quietly, take the snub on the chin, keep plying my spammy trade, and have enough introspection to realize that the reason no one wants to talk to me is because I've created one of the shi…

No kidding. If they displayed an answer or two I might have even considered joining up. When EE was prevalent in Google Search results, it would always make me upset when one of the results looked promising and then I realized I had clicked an EE link. StackOverflow and its success should be a lesson to EE.

Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review

#95

Post by jarin »

jrockway wrote: post #91
htp wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking as a former straight-to-EE-out-of-college employee: I didn't experience any of the "not very nice"-ness you're referring to- my coworkers there were and are actually really nice folks. I did, however, leave because of burnout.

Did you get an office, free food, an on-site gym, etc., etc.? If not, then that's what people call "not very nice" these days, at least for programmers.

I know, right? Those damn programmers are so entitled. Everyone knows the marketing people do all the hard work!

Ok, I'm done sarcasm trolling.

Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review

#96

Post by shrikant »

harold wrote: post #72
TimothyBurgess wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We should direct those slimeballs to this thread so they can get a dose of reality. Actually... not this thread... a transcript of this thread. We wouldn't want their kind frequenting HN!

I suppose that's where some of the "I found an answer on EE I couldn't find anywhere else" responses come from.

No need to suppose - check out the profile and posting history of each of those commenters and form a conclusion.

(I'm one of those "I found an answer on EE I couldn't find anywhere else" people, and I stand by it)

Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review

#97

Post by nostrademons »

lwat wrote: post #85
bobds wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google sort of encourages this kind of cloaking. It's called First Click Free. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

Google should reconsider their position on this I think.

If Google reconsidered their position on this, a vast archive of subscription-only NYTimes, Financial Times, WSJ, etc. content would suddenly become inaccessible.

I can't count the number of times I've seen an interesting article on Reddit or HN, clicked through, found myself butting up against a paywall, and then just Googled the title and been able to read the whole thing for free. You think that these companies would suddenly put their whole archives online for free if they didn't get a bunch of search traffic for it?

Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review

#98

Post by docgnome »

pbiggar wrote: post #83
bmelton wrote: post #47

"What do YOU think makes this site different from other Q&A sites?" Why, at one time, I was one of the highest ranked volunteer 'experts' on the site, having amassed the EE equivalent of a zillion karma, or whatever they're called, and then, literally, the first time I go there to ask a question, they're all of a sudden premium? I literally helped build that site's content, and not only got nothing for it, but I have…

Atwood talked about exactly this, calling it "digital sharecropping": http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/are-you-a-digital-s... What amazes me about StackOverflow is that Spolky and Atwood figured so much of this out at the start.

I'm not so sure that it's they figured it all out at the start. It's probably more to do with mantra of "Experts Exchange with out the evil" Just figure out what EE did, and then do the exact opposite.

Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review

#99

Post by philfreo »

fleitz wrote: post #94
danilocampos wrote: post #27

It's impressive to me that when the great minds behind Experts Exchange make their voice known, they talk just like the kind of slimeballs you would expect behind such an operation. It's shameless. In their shoes, I'd just sit there quietly, take the snub on the chin, keep plying my spammy trade, and have enough introspection to realize that the reason no one wants to talk to me is because I've created one of the shi…

No kidding. If they displayed an answer or two I might have even considered joining up. When EE was prevalent in Google Search results, it would always make me upset when one of the results looked promising and then I realized I had clicked an EE link. StackOverflow and its success should be a lesson to EE.

scroll down past all the fake answers, the real answers are shown at the bottom

Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review

#100

Post by alextingle »

fleitz wrote: post #94
danilocampos wrote: post #27

It's impressive to me that when the great minds behind Experts Exchange make their voice known, they talk just like the kind of slimeballs you would expect behind such an operation. It's shameless. In their shoes, I'd just sit there quietly, take the snub on the chin, keep plying my spammy trade, and have enough introspection to realize that the reason no one wants to talk to me is because I've created one of the shi…

No kidding. If they displayed an answer or two I might have even considered joining up. When EE was prevalent in Google Search results, it would always make me upset when one of the results looked promising and then I realized I had clicked an EE link. StackOverflow and its success should be a lesson to EE.

Just scroll to the bottom. The answers ARE there.
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