Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums

rattray wrote: post #4

One interesting nugget: more than half of the 200+ employees at Stack Exchange are working on StackOverflow Careers. Has anyone used SO Careers? Opinions?

Interesting, which is why the blog post above went on about the careers side of things.

I'm sure $40 million would help to push out their Q&A side of things, but looks like they want to spend it on the careers side of things?

I hope they get back those 100,000+ job postings :P.

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Post by dccoolgai » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 5:31 PM UTC

rattray wrote: post #4

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 tried to use it a little over a year ago when I was looking for my next gig. I got a couple decent leads out of it, but no real interviews. It seemed not to really have reached a point of "critical mass" yet where there were a lot of good listings available. It seems to have marginally more promise than the rest of the things of its breed, but it did not change my mind that finding a job through (even casual) acquaintances (which is what I ended up doing) is much more effective. The half hour it takes to set up a profile would be much better spent going to your local dev Meetup if you only had a half hour to spend IMHO. That being said, it seems to collect "all the right info" and I go back and update it every once in a while.

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Post by reledi » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 5:32 PM UTC

rattray wrote: post #4

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've had a profile there for a while and prefer it over LinkedIn because it's (obviously) more developer focused. It's also less spammy than LinkedIn in terms of being contacted by recruiters/agencies.

That said, LinkedIn still takes up the majority of what little time I spend on sites like these since that's where most people are.

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Post by radmuzom » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 5:33 PM UTC

rattray wrote: post #4

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 would guess most of those employees will be in sales / account management where the job would be to develop relationships with businesses to post jobs on StackOverflow. For example, look here [1].

[1] https://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?nl=1&k=Job...

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Post by jaydles » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 5:33 PM UTC

noblethrasher wrote: post #3

Congratulations, 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.

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Post by wbeange » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 5:34 PM UTC

more investment = more traffic = more reputation for me :)