One interesting nugget: more than half of the 200+ employees at Stack Exchange are working on StackOverflow Careers. Has anyone used SO Careers? Opinions?
I got my current job there—not much to say, just was an excellent source of quality positions.
Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
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Re: Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
#32One interesting nugget: more than half of the 200+ employees at Stack Exchange are working on StackOverflow Careers. Has anyone used SO Careers? Opinions?
I've found that it's quite a good source of information on legitimately good or interesting technology companies in various cities. Once you look outside Silicon Valley, it can sometimes be surprisingly hard to figure out what the good companies are, if any, in a given city. My experience is that the good companies typically have at least a profile or job posting on there.
(And if you're a good company and you have neither of those, I recommend getting one if you can afford it -- not sure what the cost is.)
Re: Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
> ...buried in thousands of pages of stale forums. Now this, my friends, is one of the major problems of stackoverflow today!
Except you don't have to browse to page four of a giant thread to find out a posted solution doesn't work, and you can update an old answer when the information becomes outdated, etc.
Stale is stale wherever you put it - page four or on top. Technology moves so fast that that responses from 2009 to HTML/JS question should be just ignored no matter how green the accepted checkmark.
Re: Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
#34One interesting nugget: more than half of the 200+ employees at Stack Exchange are working on StackOverflow Careers. Has anyone used SO Careers? Opinions?
I had a great experience about 3 years ago. It was amazing. First, SO Careers 1.0 came to a halt, they made a few changes in 2.0, they changed it to an invite-only system as opposed to a premium subscription service. They best part of all, they reimbursed everyone who had previously paid. Here was the blog post about it: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/careers-2-0-launches/ It was great, I was getting several r…
Is it important to have high SE rep points for getting noticed from recruiters?
(I have started using recently, have only 1k rep)
Re: Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
#35I often ask a question on Google, get taken to a Stack Exchange site, and find that yes, they have my question, but some moderator closed it before it got answered. SE got my traffic, but I didn't get my answer. Isn't that broken?
Yeah I feel that they are overzealous in closing useful (to me) questions, but its hard to know what the site would be like if they let discussions go--perhaps it would make it a lot more difficult to find the answer you're looking for.
Re: Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
#36One interesting nugget: more than half of the 200+ employees at Stack Exchange are working on StackOverflow Careers. Has anyone used SO Careers? Opinions?
It's pretty good, as a programmer I ditched Linkedin a while ago, I always get great opportunities from SO Careers, and always get spam (pretty much) and shitty opportunities from Linkedin, just being there, without actively applying to jobs.
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#37I often ask a question on Google, get taken to a Stack Exchange site, and find that yes, they have my question, but some moderator closed it before it got answered. SE got my traffic, but I didn't get my answer. Isn't that broken?
Can you provide examples of some of those questions? Usually when I encounter that, it's been closed as a duplicate with a link to the original.
Going to be hard to reproduce that bug since they are totally random long tail questions, but I have it happen a lot too FWIW.
Re: Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
#38One interesting nugget: more than half of the 200+ employees at Stack Exchange are working on StackOverflow Careers. Has anyone used SO Careers? Opinions?
I got my first job out of college via SO Careers; it was a pretty solid gig, though I've moved on since then. I think I applied to several jobs through it, and wound up with a few phone screens leading to one actual interview in person. The response rate was pretty good; in fact, the only slow response I've had was when I applied for a job at Trello, but that was probably due to them being swamped more than anything else.
Re: Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
#39Congratulations, and (more importantly) thanks.
Kind of you, but the real credit goes to all the people who donate their time and knowledge to help others. We (I work at SE) are incredibly excited to be able to use this investment to do even more for them.
Credit also goes to the promoters of programming languages with bugs and bad documentation. Some of them use Stack Overflow in lieu of providing their own reliable issue tracking hosting; some even actively increase tags on SO for their own language to help along programming language ranking systems. Some of these promoters even lose their own investment, which may even have been redirected to SE in the same boardroom discussion somewhere.
Re: Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
#40I often ask a question on Google, get taken to a Stack Exchange site, and find that yes, they have my question, but some moderator closed it before it got answered. SE got my traffic, but I didn't get my answer. Isn't that broken?
Can you provide examples of some of those questions? Usually when I encounter that, it's been closed as a duplicate with a link to the original.
When searching for the best tool for the job, I often get pointed to SE and the questions are closed as "not constructive". I seem to recall, however, that they opened a separate site for such discussions?