Timeline for Sunsetting Jobs & Developer Story
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
11 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2023 at 17:22 | comment | added | www139 | They could have made job boards a paid feature. I would way rather use SO jobs than LinkedIn Premium at $40/mo. | |
| Mar 28, 2022 at 16:03 | comment | added | Hahnemann | Terrible decision. One that SO leadership will regret later on. | |
| Feb 7, 2022 at 9:25 | comment | added | SwissCoder | The fees for recruiting devs were really high. Can't see how this wasn't profitable. The high fees were justified, since you had a unique position in the market. Still can't believe that storing this data would cost more than you make with selling it 😕 | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 16:52 | comment | added | Eve | @rossipedia "Smart boss, simple worker: wage decrease, worktime increase; smart worker, simple boss: wage increase, worktime decrease or both; smart boss, smart worker: wage increase, worktime decrease, profit increase" | |
| Jan 26, 2022 at 5:21 | comment | added | rossipedia | "Hiring software engineers is quite a profitable business" For the 5 years I worked for SO, that was definitely not true at all. | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 15:46 | comment | added | rossipedia | Whether it's not profitable "at all" or just not profitable "enough" the outcome/conclusion is still the same. | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 13:14 | comment | added | Walter Monecke | @rossipedia And would you please tell me how you know this is unprofitable? Maybe it's just not profitable "enough"? | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 17:30 | comment | added | rossipedia | "Greed" is different from "we need to keep the servers running, the lights on, and make sure employees get paid". If an endeavor costs more money than it makes, it is unsustainable, regardless of how many people are attached to it. The bottom line is that these business ventures did not pan out, and did not even make "break even" revenue. Continuing to throw money down the drain would be insanity and would eventually lead to collapse. | |
| Jan 14, 2022 at 13:27 | comment | added | Viveret Steele StaffMod | "Job ads" may cease to exist but there are future problems to solve that may require the structure and capabilities implemented previously | |
| Jan 14, 2022 at 13:27 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | Yes, this is sad. Most software has a limited lifespan (for whatever reason). Hopefully some general software components and/or gained knowledge can live on. | |
| Jan 13, 2022 at 20:50 | history | answered | rossipedia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |