Joel Spolsky

careers August 10, 2011

Careers 2.0: It”s About Reputation, Not “Rep

I get an email like Arik‘s every day or two. He wrote: The problem I see is that Careers 2.0 give advantage to developers with high Stack Overflow statistics (which I guess was the point, showing that you know stuff). Unfortunately, SO succeeded so well, that practically no good question remained unanswered. Thus, gaining a…
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background July 14, 2011

How much should you pay developers?

We’re at that time of year where we go through everybody’s salary and makes sure it’s reasonable. We’re up to about a dozen in-house software developers, and we’d been paying them based on a compensation system developed by our cousins at Fog Creek, which is different enough from Stack Exchange that there was some chafing.…
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company June 27, 2011

DevDays is Back!

Stack Overflow DevDays, the universe’s best conference series for coders, is back, and it’s bigger than ever! Here’s the idea behind DevDays. You’re a developer. You’d love to learn all the latest hot new technologies. Things like DVCS, HTML 5, Node.js, CSS3, Hadoop, etc. The stuff the cool kids are all talking about on the…
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community June 9, 2011

1,000,000th user!

Like most sites, it’s hard to figure out the number of users on Stack Exchange. The widest possible number is the number of unique visitors, most of whom just read our content and move on. That number is now around 19,000,000 according to Google Analytics or 14,000,000 according to Quantcast – the difference comes from…
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community May 3, 2011

DevDays 2011 planning begins

A couple of years ago, we ran a series of awesome one-day conferences in ten cities called Stack Overflow Dev Days. People had a lot of fun (read the reviews) and learned a lot, and we’ve been scrambling to get our acts in gear to run more conferences. One thing we decided was that 10…
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background April 15, 2011

Welcome Valued Associate Alex Miller!

Yup. The team has now hit 32 human beings (plus a lot of unicorns and bacon). Our latest addition is Alex Miller: We haven’t quite figured out an official title for Alex yet… The job description was “Sidekick to the CEO” and the idea was that he would follow me around and do all kinds…
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community April 12, 2011

Stack Exchange Traffic Still Growing

We had a crazy month last month, growing about 18% across the board. Today I was excited to log onto Quantcast, which measures our traffic, to see that for the first time, our network rank now fits into a single unsigned byte! There are several different ways we measure our traffic, and each of them…
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community April 7, 2011

Stack Overflow Around the World

It’s really inspiring to see Stack Overflow meetup events being held in almost 100 cities around the world. Here’s where the meetup groups are: That made me think again about Stack Exchange in other languages. Now, Stack Exchange isn’t just software. Localizing it isn’t just a matter of translating the strings. It’s a community, so…
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company March 9, 2011

A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending)

It’s been a while since we’ve done something arbitrary, complicated, and confusing, so today I’m happy to announce that the name of the company has been changed, effective immediately, to Stack Exchange Inc! There’s a method behind this madness, of course: we want to emphasize the importance of the 45 sites in our network, which…
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careers February 23, 2011

Careers 2.0 Launches

One day, you’ll be telling your grandchildren about getting a programming job, version 1.0. You would send a “resume” to a “recruiter.” It included all kinds of silly information required by the esoteric resume ritual (foreign languages spoken, whether or not you play ultimate Frisbee, Microsoft-veteran status). This so-called “information” was utterly useless at determining…
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background January 24, 2011

State of the Stack 2010 (a message from your CEO)

2010 was an absolutely amazing year here at Stack Overflow. We grew from 7 million visitors to over 16 million, putting us in Quantcast’s top 400. We raised $6 million in venture capital, and we went from three full time employees to 27. We built a 7500 square foot office in New York, and we…
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