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I am curious how your Stack Overflow activity was used in the hiring process. Would you mind sharing?

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> 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.

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