> The Series D round, which also had participation from existing investors ... Bezos Expeditions, ...
Is there anything Bezos doesn't have his hands in? (I mean it in both a good and bad way)
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
#12One 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.
Their careers business has the opportunity to be a revenue generator for the company. The starting cost for a job listing is $495 per 30 days and goes up to $1499 per 30 days. In my opinion, the profiles on Stack Overflow careers allow developers to present themselves much better than many other career sites.
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#13One 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 requests per week for a while, and it even helped me land a job across the country.
All that being said, I haven't kept my SO Careers profile up to date lately, and haven't had many inquiries in a while.
I do highly recommend it.
Re: Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
#14Your question has been closed as off topic.
Re: Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
#15Stack Exchange should spinoff a teaching/bootcamp division to tap the education market.
Re: Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
#16One interesting nugget: more than half of the 200+ employees at Stack Exchange are working on StackOverflow Careers. Has anyone used SO Careers? Opinions?
I posted a decent programming job in a decent market on there about a year ago, but didn't get any qualified applicants.
Re: Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
#17Also on Joel on Software: http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2015/01/20.html
> ...buried in thousands of pages of stale forums.
Now this, my friends, is one of the major problems of stackoverflow today!
Re: Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
#18One interesting nugget: more than half of the 200+ employees at Stack Exchange are working on StackOverflow Careers. Has anyone used SO Careers? Opinions?
I kept my profile there for a while from 2011-2012 and at the time I didn't get any leads. When I actively searched for job postings there, they mostly seemed to be within a few core areas, usually aligning with the same things Stack Overflow proper has a lot of activity in: .NET, enterprise Java, etc.
As a web developer working in stuff like PHP or Ruby, I just chalked it up to me being in the wrong venue. Over time, I've gotten better leads and interviews from stuff like We Work Remotely and even Indeed. From my experience, the stuff SO Careers was optimizing for and prioritizing on profile pages wasn't really important for landing an interview request.
All that said, a lot can change in 2 years and it seems SO Careers's success somewhat speaks for itself.
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#19Unfortunately, Tech Crunch labels Stack Exchange as a 'forum'. It's not.
A Forum is for hanging out and sharing. It may have information you need, it may not. You will spend a lot of time scrolling through useless material finding it. Or even worse: http://xkcd.com/979/
Stack Exchange will not waste your time. You have a much higher chance to find the answer you're looking for.
In short, while Forums and Stack Exchange are avenues to convey information, SE works to ensure finding information is easy and painless, whereas a forum does not.
(I'm a moderator on Stack Overflow).
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#20Your post has been closed as it does not describe a real problem but is instead suspect to opinions.