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> The idea of the business model is to pay people in imaginary currency and sell what they do for real currency. That "imaginary" currency has paid off for me.
by chrisaycock 15y ago
> The idea of the business model is to pay people in imaginary currency and sell what they do for real currency.
That "imaginary" currency has paid off for me. I got my most recent job through Stack Overflow.
- NickLarsen 15y agoWe're happy to hear you got your job with a little help from us! If anyone else would like an invite to our careers site, you can use this link for an invite. http://bit.ly/A4CB1B http://bit.ly/A4CB1B Additionally we are actually hiring people to join the careers team right now, http://bit.ly/xXXewd http://bit.ly/xXXewd <- developers, and http://bit.ly/xthTi9 http://bit.ly/xthTi9 <- product manager. I am curious how your Stack Overflow activity was used in the hiring process. Would you mind sharing?
- chrisaycock 15y ago> I am curious how your Stack Overflow activity was used in the hiring process. Would you mind sharing? I searched on the Careers 2.0 site and applied to a few firms that looked interesting. For one particular firm, my SO profile acted as my "code sample". I got the offer within a few weeks and have been happy ever since. I'll note that most of the firms that advertised on your Careers site were very serious about software quality. The signal-to-noise of excellent companies was far beyond what I've traditionally gotten through a head hunter. I suspect that's because any hiring manager who actually knows what SO is has probably had tons of hands-on experience with coding.
- rogerbinns 15y ago> That "imaginary" currency ... The currency that you get paid with on SO, Github, mailing lists, open source software etc is reputation. In many circumstances (eg getting a job) it is far more valuable than real currency.