Timeline for Will high reputation in Stack Overflow help to get a good job?
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| Jun 22, 2011 at 23:20 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Being able to use semicolons properly, rather than using commas improperly, will also lend higher credibility to your employment chances. | |
| Jan 18, 2011 at 2:03 | comment | added | jqa | 1. I've seen people writing huge answers for blatant homework questions. they just want the points. 2. I looked into advertising a programmer job, in my major city (>5m people) there were 60 registered SO users. It isn't a good place for us to advertise for developers. | |
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| Dec 20, 2010 at 0:27 | comment | added | JeffO | Just because someone may not be a fit for every job doesn't mean they aren't a fit for a lot of other jobs that may pay in this price range. | |
| Dec 6, 2010 at 18:00 | vote | accept | Shamim Hafiz - MSFT | ||
| Nov 23, 2010 at 16:53 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | @Andrew Sledge: yes, as Pavel Shved put it: "For Stack Overflow the better principle is "assume rep wh*ring". If you see that a post seems unhelpful, your default assumption should be that the author didn't want to do any harm, he just intended to get some quick rep." | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 5:36 | comment | added | Brian Rasmussen | Are you saying that playing Guitar Hero all day will not make me a rock star? | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 1:41 | comment | added | Andrew Sledge | "Are these people good programers? Undoubtedly yes!". I've read some of the code from a couple of the 5-digit folks...not exactly impressive from what I've seen. I would say that there's quite a bit of social massaging involved - if you can say something that appeals to a large group of people then you win...end game. While most are quite capable there are (and the numbers are growing) too many trolls and flame-baiters just looking for the +1 to make their day successful. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 23:08 | comment | added | Josh K | @instanceofTom: Yes, it works out very well. Coding it was fun, writing for it is better. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 22:07 | comment | added | instanceofTom | @Josh K, yes your blog. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 21:58 | comment | added | Josh K | @instanceofTom: I'm not sure what you're referencing, do you mean my blog? Yes, it works out very well. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 21:04 | comment | added | user1249 | @Mike, I said well-written, not highly scored. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 20:52 | comment | added | instanceofTom | @Josh K, I have intended to start doing exactly that, has that been working out well? | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 20:04 | comment | added | Mike DeSimone | @Thorb: While I agree with your general sentiment, I see a lot of SO questions whose answer owed its high score to being submitted in the first few minutes than to it being well-written. It's not to the "First post!" level yet, though. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 19:56 | comment | added | Christian P | @Cthulhu Like I said, this is an indirect connection. High reputation is certainly a plus. It can show dedication/will to help others to solve problems. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 12:15 | history | edited | Josh K | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 22, 2010 at 12:14 | comment | added | Josh K | @MAK: The original question asked it reputation by itself would earn you a job. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 9:11 | comment | added | MAK | The question asks whether having a high rep helps. Of course you don't just get an offer without the usual hiring process just because of your rep. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 8:21 | comment | added | cthulhu | @christian.p: Cause / effect - do you get offered a job because you have 10000+ points, or because you're good at what you do and spent some time sharing that information on a website? | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 5:57 | history | edited | Josh K | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 22, 2010 at 5:50 | history | edited | Josh K | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 22, 2010 at 5:32 | comment | added | the Tin Man | I hope it doesn't. I've seen some really stupid questions asked repeatedly by people with high reputations and stupid answers by others. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 5:24 | history | edited | Josh K | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 21, 2010 at 23:33 | history | edited | Josh K | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
If you want to make my answer more informative go for it. Don't make it any less emphasized.
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| Nov 21, 2010 at 20:34 | history | edited | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 21, 2010 at 18:30 | comment | added | Josh K | @Thorb: Correct. I tend to take my answers and expand on them in my blog time permitting. I get far more inquiries from that then all the SO / SE sites put together. | |
| Nov 21, 2010 at 18:21 | comment | added | Christian P | @Josh I agree BUT there may be an indirect connection between reputation on a site like StackOverflow and job offerings. My line of thought is that if you can score 10000+ points by giving meaningful answers, you probably have a considerable amount of knowledge about some technology / topic. | |
| Nov 21, 2010 at 18:19 | comment | added | user1249 | Well-written questions and answers on StackOverflow is quite indicative of your communication skills, though. | |
| Nov 21, 2010 at 18:03 | history | answered | Josh K | CC BY-SA 2.5 |