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This year's survey is live! We've edited the questions/answers based on your feedback from last year's survey and suggestions from our Meta post.

As a small token of our appreciation, we'll be donating $1 for each completed survey to your choice of one of this year's Stack charities.

Take the survey!

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Should this be featured? –  minitech♦ Dec 16 at 21:19
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"As a small token of our gratitude, we will be donating $1 for every completed survey to the charity you choose." Nice touch! –  Travis J Dec 18 at 16:37
 
"Link to a Stack Overflow Careers Company Cage" Let's get ready to rummmmmmmbbllllleee! –  vcsjones Dec 18 at 16:59
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I think the donation to the charity is great, but isn't is a little offensive to list "Women programmers" as a charity, but not have a "Man Programmers" category as charity as well? –  Amber Dec 19 at 13:12
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Not really. There are a lot more groups dedicated to focusing on women in tech that don't really seen to be necessary for men. –  Dave Newton Dec 25 at 23:35
 
Add Erlang to the technology interest list. –  kadaj 9 hours ago
 
I get paid in bitcoin, I have no idea what is the equivalent in USD, one day it inflates, the next day China bans it. –  2er0 2 hours ago
 
Add xamarin to the technology interest list. –  Jeremy Thompson 11 mins ago
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Next year, could you have a separate bit for students? I'm sure there are a lot of students who use Stack Overflow, and many of the questions could be replaced with more relevant ones.

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<lame-voice>We're all students.</lame-voice> –  bobobobo 20 hours ago
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up vote 23 down vote 
if(budget > 5000 && budget < 10001)
{
    //TODO: implement this feature
}

what is your budget for outside expenditures?

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Inflate your ego by answering $10,001 - $25,000 :-). Or, get a bigger budget... –  ben is uǝq backwards Dec 18 at 21:42
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up vote 11 down vote

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It's just OS X now.

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Is it twice better than SysV, then? :) –  Alexei Averchenko 21 hours ago
 
It's still Mac bad enough –  dan 3 hours ago
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up vote 9 down vote

I wish the survey were from the technical department instead of the marketing department.

Make your voice be heard?!?

This is a joke, right? I guess I'm most annoyed by the way the survey was advertised. Because it's not at all about my "voice", but about getting a sales profile to market the product 'me'.

I.e. the questions read much like "how can we improve our ads revenue" and not "how can we make the site better". Sorry, I'm quite disappointed from the survey, and will likely not participate the next time. (Plus, I was unable to answer most of the questions, as they are all about jobs, and I'm a lowish student. What am I supposed to answer as company size?!?)

It's scary to see the survey ignore students this badly.

This has been discussed above; but the survey essentially conveys the message "we only care about you, if you are employed", doesn't it?

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What on earth did you think the surveys were for if not advertising? I mean, welcome to the internet and all... –  Kirk Woll 9 hours ago
 
How about: improving the site for the users (and not the advertisers)? E.g. identifying what users need, want and expect from the site? But yeah, I could have forseen this. I should also have checked who posted the survey. –  Anony-Mousse 9 hours ago
 
@Anony-Mousse We already have an entire website dedicated to figuring out what users need, want, and expect from the site. –  Billy Mailman 8 hours ago
 
Well, meta doesn't give you quantitative information, like a survey. It won't be able to answer all user need questions. –  Anony-Mousse 7 hours ago
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up vote 7 down vote

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So I selected that I don't see the ads, as I use an ad-blocker, yet I'm still required to answer the rest of the questions? I think there may be a lot of 'neutral's!

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(Keep it quiet that I got strongly disagree and strongly agree mixed up in the screenshot...whoops!) –  Chris 10 hours ago
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up vote 5 down vote

The page where this question

How would you best describe the industry you currently work in?

appears has weird questions. If you are a student, the two other questions (employee count, remote or not) doesn't really apply to you.

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PhD students can be remote (as can open university students - english thing, i think the general term might be correspondence course) –  Richard Tingle Dec 25 at 22:33
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@RichardTingle I happen to be a secondary school student ;) –  Timothy Choi yesterday
 
Ah, that may be less remote –  Richard Tingle yesterday
 
Employee count is an optional question so you don't have to answer that one. Working remotely is a bit awkward to answer though, yes. –  Jeroen Vannevel 9 hours ago
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Some might say these answers are a bit.. extreme. I have had one recruiter contact me in the past two weeks. It might not be much for a professional developer but as a student I was extremely thrilled. Now I have to throw that away in my answer!

Which brings me to my next point: students are disregarded. Many questions are hard to apply on us ("How do you divide your time during work", "Do you work remotely?" etc) and should have a student-specific option.

I understand now that this is a survey aimed at Careers 2.0 but if students weren't the target group then this should have been communicated at the start.

I have a Careers 2.0 profile that I try to regularly update and it has a decent amount of traction. Students, like me, are the next batch of users that will go into Careers 2.0, I think it would be important to not disregard that demographic from the survey.

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up vote 1 down vote

While I use quite a bit of programming at work, I wouldn't really consider myself a developer. I am an Engineer, who uses programming to do analysis. I don't think any of the choices really reflect what I do, and it would be nice to have some consideration for those of us who aren't full time developers, but still program.

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Like last year, I am confused by the "salary level" question. Ok, it says "inclued bonuses", which is a nice improvement. However.. like last year, it does not say if it is before or after taxes.

For the USA, this probably does not impact so much, but for Europe it definitely moves you from one level to the next one (taxes are 40/50/60% of the income, depending on the level and on the country)

(I answered after taxes, so that it's my overall annual net income)

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It's probably before tax. You can then use purchasing power parity and things like average house prices/cost of a coffee etc to work it out properly. If it's after tax you have to take into account what everyone gets for their taxes, which makes everything a lot more complicated. –  ben is uǝq backwards 8 hours ago
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