A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this economy

Re:A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this... by mquander on Friday December 18, 2009 @03:47PM (#1003901)

Not to drag this way off topic, but 6k isn't really very spectacular; I'm neither a great programmer nor a prolific contributor, and I have a much higher rep than that, just by answering about one question per day for 11 months.

If he had 50k, in my opinion, then it might be a commentary on the meaning of the reputation, but not so much as is.

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Re:A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this... by scotch_drinker on Friday December 18, 2009 @03:54PM (#1003916)

Based on the users currently on StackOverflow, he ranks 747th by my count. Assuming there are 100K+ users on StackOverflow, I think that makes it a pretty spectacular reputation statistically speaking. Answering a question every day for 11 months is also pretty spectacular if you ask me.

He may not be a Jon Skeet but he's clearly head and shoulders above the great majority of StackOverflow users. He's exactly the type of programmer that I think Joel would say would have a good use for the Careers portion. So I find it interesting that he had such a hard time finding a job ASSUMING he knew about and utilized the Careers section.

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