> 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.
That "imaginary" currency has paid off for me. I got my most recent job through Stack Overflow.
Additionally we are actually hiring people to join the careers team right now, http://bit.ly/xXXewd <- developers, and http://bit.ly/xthTi9 <- product manager.
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.
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.