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In light of StackOverflow looking for a new CEO, layoffs in the past year and a half, $68 million in venture capital looking for a return, and Joel Spolsky's connections to Microsoft, this might actually happen.

I've also gotten the impression that StackOverflow's recruiting product isn't doing so well. It seems to be a few hundred dollars a month for a single job posting, but the results for recruiters are apparently mixed.

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StackOverflow for Teams seems like a really hard sell too. $5-10/user/mo is pretty steep, especially for a service that needs a significant-size userbase to "work".

Just seen it adopted in a F50. It's not particularly difficult to sell in my opinion. The product is pretty good too.

We use StackOverflow for Teams with a small team (<15 developers) and it’s been great. While I’m sure our revenue alone won’t make it profitable, I think it’s a product that can work with teams of all sizes. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.

You might say StackOverflow careers isn’t doing well, but it is literally the only jobs listing outside of this website that I look at. The ability to get a succinct email within a chosen SALARY RANGE and being able to select remote only is AWESOME.

I think they use SQL Server as well so there’s that poster child angle as well.

And C#.

Pretty sure it was developed entirely on the MS stack. Jeff Atwood had a few posts about it. At the beginning it was literally one Windows Server machine.

SO is primarily MS Dev stack.

I've had great success finding devs for my company on SO. I would hate to see it go away.

LinkedIn and Github didn't go away.

If I remember correctly, my team of four was quoted at $13k/yr for the StackOverflow job posting / recruiting solution.

It's probably worth it for companies with greater hiring needs than ours, but LinkedIn (begrudgingly), and ZipRecruiter have provided enough quality candidate-flow for far less money that it doesn't make any sense for our uses.

LinkedIn seems like a good fit

Well they're already owned by Microsoft, so same deal =P

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