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insights June 12, 2017

New Kids on the Block: Understanding Developers Entering the Workforce Today

Another academic year has recently ended, bringing with it a new season of graduations to celebrate and a new crop of freshly-minted graduates entering the software industry. The 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey provides context and data for understanding developers who are just entering the workforce compared to more experienced developers. Let’s use this year’s…

Julia Silge Data Scientist (former)

insights March 28, 2017

And the Most Realistic Developer in Fiction is…

Computer programmers, IT specialists, and hackers are often depicted in popular works of fiction, from books, movies, to TV shows. On the 2017 Developer Survey, we asked respondents about depictions of what it’s really like to be a programmer. This was one of my favorite questions on the survey this year, and analyzing these results…

Julia Silge Data Scientist (former)

company March 22, 2017

Now Live: Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017 Results

What do developers want? And how do they get the job done? Every year since 2011, we’ve asked developers these questions (and many, many more) as part of our annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey, the largest and most comprehensive survey of developers in the world. More than 64,000 developers told us this year how they…

Kevin Troy

community January 11, 2017

The 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is Now Live

We’re back for another edition of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey, the largest and most comprehensive survey of software developers on earth. Every year, we include questions about your favorite technologies, coding habits, and work preferences, as well as how you learn, share, and level up as a developer. Want to see how you stack…

Kevin Troy

community March 17, 2016

2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

Here at Stack Overflow, everything we build is done with the same single-minded, compulsive, fanatical obsession to serve programmers. We’re a community built by developers for developers, and each month, we serve 40 million coders looking for answers to their most pressing questions. Because of this, we like to think we know software developers better…

Kaitlin Pike Marketing (Former)

community April 7, 2015

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015: The Results

Every year we ask our users to tell us a little about themselves. This year we asked our users to tell us a lot. For 2 weeks in February 2015, we ran a 45 question survey. We asked where you live, what programming languages & frameworks you use, how much money you make, how much…

Sam Brand

background February 19, 2014

2014 Stack Overflow User Survey Results

In 2013, our Stack Overflow community grew from 21.5 million to 26.9 million monthly visitors from 242 countries around the world. We’re doing a lot to keep growing with the community — we now have localized versions of Careers 2.0 for French and German audiences, we’re developing iOS and Android mobile apps for our entire…

Alison Sperling Director of Marketing (former)

company December 18, 2013

Who are you? Take the 2013 survey!

Hi folks, just a quick note here to remind y’all that the yearly Stack Overflow User Survey is live! We’ve edited the questions/answers based on your feedback from last year’s survey and suggestions posted on Meta. As a small token of our appreciation, we’ll be donating $1 for each completed survey to your choice of…

Alison Sperling Director of Marketing (former)

background January 25, 2013

2013 Stack Overflow User Survey Results

In December, we launched our 3rd annual Stack Overflow Annual User Survey to learn more about our site demographics and user trends throughout 2012. Compared to last year, we received an even larger sample size this year with almost 10,000 respondents! Here are a few larger trends we’ve observed over the past three years: You…

Bethany Marzewski Marketing (Former)

background December 14, 2012

Hey there, stranger!

It’s that most wonderful time of the year again — time for the Stack Overflow Annual Survey! So, put down that third glass of eggnog and fire up a new tab. It only takes a few minutes – and there are stickers! As the name suggests, we’ve been doing this for a few years now…

Aarthi Devanathan Community Manager (Former)

background February 10, 2012

2012 Stack Overflow User Survey Results

In December 2011, we launched the 3rd ever Stack Overflow Annual User Survey to measure changes in user demographics and trends from last year. First, a big thank you to everyone who participated, and now on to the results! View the survey results Demographics Let’s start off with some basic demographics: the majority (50.3%) of…

Alison Sperling Director of Marketing (former)