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26 questions linked to/from Are Career Advice questions useful to anyone except the poster?
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Why was my question closed or down voted?
Help! My question was closed (or down voted). Why? And what can I do about it?
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What technology to take up next
Recommend a software library, tool, book, research paper,...
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Are Career-Advice Questions On-Topic Here?
I have a question about
Education,
Finding a job,
Hiring,
Interviews,
Job Titles
Training Materials,
Classes,
Certifications,
Skill sets,
Marketing,
Job Stress,
Workplace Interaction,
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It's official! Programmers is now Software Engineering Stack Exchange
Awww yeah. WOoooooooOOOOoooOOOOOoooT! PARTY TIME. Check out that domain name and logo!
Thanks Stack Exchange :-)
If you see any problems anywhere, please leave an answer to this question so we can ...
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Are questions not directly related to programming (but might concern programmers) on-topic?
Questions like "Can you recommend some good pottery for programmers?" are an issue we need to figure out- to what extent are they allowed? I see a few variants on this:
Questions that are clearly ...
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Should we mention The Workplace in our FAQ?
Sort of following up on How should we guide questions toward The Workplace? I was thinking our FAQ's bit that says we're NOT about "career advice, including general workplace issues" to explicitly ...
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Should "No Interview Questions" be added to our FAQ?
I just came across this question that has already been closed: Why don't interviewers ask the applicant to read some code?
I agree that the question as it was worded wasn't very constructive but ...
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Current state of the [job-market] [duplicate]
As of now, there are over 87 questions in job-market tag.
All of these questions are closed, except for this one which has historical lock. Could we do something to help askers understand the risks ...
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What can be done to make this site less of a whine/complain fest
I've noticed that a lot of questions on programmers tend to go something like this:
[Someone / a senior team member] [refuses to do/always does] [some best practice/something that annoys me]. How do ...
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There seems to be some contradictory guidance with respect to asking career development questions
The Help Center says this:
and it is not about...
career advice, salary or compensation,
... but it links to an answer that cites this question as being an acceptable career-development ...
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What can we do about incorrectly pedantic moderation?
I've just seen a question closed by a moderator because "Career advice is explicitly off-topic, per the FAQ" (link), which is simply incorrect: the FAQ makes clear that career advice specific to ...
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Why are all of the good career-related threads closed? [duplicate]
This is a great forum but career questions are often interesting and people like reading/responding to them.
Why not allow these types of questions as long as they are tagged "career"? Are there any ...
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Why was my question so quickly deleted by a moderator?
I asked a question and it was deleted WITHOUT any polite explanation, by Thomas Owens:
I want to learn Symfony but I think, learning Symfony as a first framework is a TITANIC task for someone who ...
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Are career questions OK if both the question and answers contain generally applicable information? [duplicate]
I asked a question about joining a startup as a grad, specifically about the scenario where there wouldn't be any more senior programmers working above the grads: https://softwareengineering....
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Help Center tuning: "help/on-topic/and it is not about..." += references to meta guidance
Per recent discussion, I drafted some updates I'd like to have in Help Center -> What topics can I ask about here, section not about...
Added text is in bold, deleted is crossed, and some links are ...
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Questions about education
I am unsure about the rules pertaining to questions related to education.
Initially I searched the site for questions related to MS and MSC degrees, and saw many questions from members seeking ...
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