What is stack overflow's work force? The devs of website? Admins?
Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
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Re: Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
#102I understand they had to do it (I'm sure we—their users—understand), but I can't understand the need for bullshit business-speak. Just say, "Due to circumstances you all familiar with, business is slow, so I have to let go of some people from X department." Putting up bullshit like this is like adding insult to injury. Especially, since their user demographics are mostly people who don't like bullshit.
Imagine you’re on the CEO career path. What behaviours are you going to exhibit in order to pad your resume for the next position? You don’t really care about the company or the people who work there, you care about the next CEO position that pays more.
Exactly, no one wants to be the odd one out when doing things that could be bad for public image.
Re: Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
#103I don't get it. It is as if Zoom would announcing job cuts "because COVID-19". Stackoverflow is an internet service providing answers to questions, why would they get lower counts of traffic?
Less advertising / business deals maybe?
But there will be countless companies that will use the virus as a scapegoat.
Re: Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
#104I understand they had to do it (I'm sure we—their users—understand), but I can't understand the need for bullshit business-speak. Just say, "Due to circumstances you all familiar with, business is slow, so I have to let go of some people from X department." Putting up bullshit like this is like adding insult to injury. Especially, since their user demographics are mostly people who don't like bullshit.
I worked for a company with a horrible PR/communication department. The CEO was making a clear, precise, sometimes intense statement.
Gave it to PR. Then the CEO dealt with other stuff.
The weak communication department had meetings after meetings, internal drama shows, delegation games and then a) either nothing was communicated at all b) business b#llshit speak came out.
Communication is just as strong as it's weakest link.
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#105I think any company that lays off people at this time are scum, they should be embarrassed and rescind this.
There are loans available in the us and uk to keep people employed.
I won’t use stack overflow for the rest of may, it isn’t much but fuck them.
They know the people they let go can’t get another job at the moment.
Re: Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
#106I think any company that lays off people at this time are scum, they should be embarrassed and rescind this. There are loans available in the us and uk to keep people employed. I won’t use stack overflow for the rest of may, it isn’t much but fuck them. They know the people they let go can’t get another job at the moment.
How easy is it to get those loans? I know in the US the PPP seems easy to get the bigger you are, otherwise if you don't have a tight relationship with a bank you probably missed out.
Re: Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
#107How is StackOverflow negatively affected by the Pandemic? Is it that their customers go under, or see the services as nonessential so they get less revenue? It seems like it should be one of those Netflix-type companies that do better when everyone is remote, than they do otherwise.
i guess ads are down
this makes me reflect that almost everything online functions only because of ads, which is quite sad
either ads, or selling PII to companies that do ads
Re: Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
That seems like a terrible thing to list on a resume to me.
Why if I may asked? Non technical people don't care, and I've gotten recognition by some hiring engineers by it. One even started an interview with "I gotta thank you, your SO answer helped me out recently".
As a hiring manager I can tell you the sad truth about this and github links.
No one reads them. Seriously. No one reads them. There’s simply too many resumes to look at. Having it something extra to look at, and it’s cognitive load is a hell of a lot more than anything else, because now I’m supposed to understand some random code dropped in my lap, or whether some rando’s answers on SO are quality, or not. (Points just tell me about how quickly it was answered, not necessarily quality.) Finally, assuming I did all that work, now I have to compare this to someone that didn’t list it, because they don’t care enough about SO to create an account (raises hand), or simply have hobbies outside of coding.
It’s easier — and fairer — to simply judge the resume based on the the actual resume, and then follow up with interview questions if appropriate.
Re: Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
#109Chance of getting a meaningful reply on any technical question which answer does not simply involve providing the documentation for the given framework or language involved: - Stack Overflow: 1% - Reddit: 8% - The Daily WTF forum: 81% This is internet is broken. I want the old one back.
I think it strongly depends on the tags of the question. In particular I think you will poor quality answers on popular, high volume tags like JavaScript.
Re: Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
#110Have they hired a alien attack movie scriptwriter? - Since then, we have entered a new era, and societies in every corner of the globe face a historic challenge. We are reminded that for all of our advances as a civilization, nature can be a powerful force which we must adapt and innovate around.