Alison Sperling

background April 10, 2011

Welcome Valued Associate Greg Drinkwater!

Greg Drinkwater joins the Careers Sales team in the NYC headquarters. As Account Executive, Greg is working to expand our Careers 2.0 jobs board, and most importantly, helping our employer customers fill their open positions. Greg lives on Long Island with his wife and stays busy chasing after his two rescue dogs, Frankie and Jed.…
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background March 22, 2011

Welcome Valued Associate Amanda Zompetti!

Amanda Zompetti takes over as Office Manager in the Stack Exchange NYC headquarters. As Office Manager/Den Mother, Amanda ensures that all the behind-the-scenes-daily-operations run smoothly. During her first week she was faced with many challenges including the installation of a ping pong table. In all seriousness, Amanda is already a strong contributor to the team. In her…
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company March 8, 2011

PEER 1 Hosting – Making your data center more awesome!

In 2003, Fog Creek Software (aka Joel’s other baby) moved offices, and decided to ditch its internal T1 and look for a colocation provider. Joel was impressed with PEER 1 Hosting’s customer service, the shiny new data center in NYC, and PEER 1 Hosting even volunteered to host Joel on Software – for free! When we…
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background February 14, 2011

Welcome Valued Associate Jamie Gingerelli

New Jersey born-and-bred, Jamie Gingerelli joins the Stack team in the NYC headquarters as Ad Operations Campaign Manager.  Jamie is leading the ad operations of Stack Overflow; insuring that our advertisers receive the most bang for their advertising buck.  With strong organizational skills and a passion for customer service, Jamie is sure to be a…
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background January 17, 2011

Welcome Valued Associate Nick Larsen

2011 is starting off with a bang! I’m excited to announce that Nick Larsen has joined the Stack Overflow team in our NYC headquarters. Nick relocated from Atlanta, GA with his lovely wife Mary Paige, a graphic designer, and their rescued dachshund Maddy, a nap enthusiast. They’re settling into their new apartment on the Upper…
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background January 11, 2011

Survey Says

In December we launched the Stack Overflow Annual User Survey in order to measure the user demographics that Google Analytics can’t provide us with. Finding out the user demographics became necessary due to the growth that Stack Overflow had in 2010. Of the 2,813 surveys started, 2,532 were completed, for a completion rate of 90%!…
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company December 21, 2010

Stack Overflow Annual Survey

As you’ve seen from the site analytics, Stack Overflow grew significantly in 2010.  We noticed some major technical shifts – more global visitors and an increase in use of Chrome as a web browser.  But, our visitors are more than just their web browser, operating system and screen resolutions, they are real people with real…
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community December 7, 2010

Stack Overflow + RHoK = Partners in Hacker Goodness

We were approached by the nice people at Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) to help them promote their worldwide event last weekend (December 3-5).  Since our audience on Stack Overflow and Server Fault seemed like a good fit with their inspiring mission, we agreed to toss some banner ad impressions their way. If you’re not…
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careers November 9, 2010

What’s a CV Anyway?

When I first started working at Stack Overflow, I wondered why the candidate’s work experience is referred to as a CV on Stack Overflow Careers. I honestly thought Stack Overflow might be a European company or maybe they were just being snobs. A resume is your work experience written up on a piece of paper…
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