Stack Overflow Environment Employee Reviews | Comparably
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Stack Overflow helps developers and technologists write the script of the future. Over 100 million people visit Stack Overflow every month, making it one of the 50 most popular websites in the world. Our asynchronous knowledge management and collaboration offering, Stack Overflow for Teams, is transforming how people work. read more
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Stack Overflow Environment Employee Reviews

What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

Everyone cares deeply about the company and product and are incredibly smart

Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 3 days ago

Openness and inclusivity. Everyone is willing to work with everyone without egos or judgement.

Review from Sales Dept

honesty, transparency, empathy, safe space

Review from Engineering Dept

Stack has an inclusive culture. People seem pretty grounded and courteous. There isn't a lot of interrupting or abrasive personalities. From what I can tell, people are comfortable speaking up without fear of repercussions.

Review from Engineering Dept

There isn't an expectation to work way beyond your hours / weekends

Review from Engineering Dept

The people are really great and we try not to take work too seriously

Review from Engineering Dept

Culture is flexible, transparent, collaborative, great communication and rewarding!

Review from HR Dept

Friendly, intelligent, diverse, working from home.

Review from HR Dept

People truly care about people, the direction of the company and how your family/mental health comes first. There are more important things than work and this is recognized.

The culture is unique because we all our on the same mission to serve our community and customers to the best of our ability and we do it with care and style and if you make a mistake your truly learn from it vs. being beat up. The best part of my day is meeting with fellow Stackers!

Review from HR Dept

acceptance of diversity; environment of mutual respect and appreciation

Review from HR Dept

Openness to new ideas and perspectives.

Review from HR Dept

That everyone is on the same team, and share a common goal

Review from HR Dept

Balance between working hard and taking the personal time needed to be at your best while working.

Review from Sales Dept

They encourage us to show up as ourselves always

Review from Operations Dept

There is a good work/life balance. Management and team members trust us to do our work. We are encouraged to use our unlimited sick time to take care of ourselves physically and mentally. There are resources for professional development. Overall, it's a very relaxed and professional workplace.

Review from Engineering Dept

Everyone is really helpful and embody the purpose of our product

Review from Engineering Dept

People genuinely care about each other and are able to have fun while working hard. Secondary to that, I love how connected I feel to my colleagues even though I'm working remotely.

Review from Sales Dept

Everyone cares about everyone. No matter what you do at the company, you can feel supported where ever you work.

Review from Sales Dept

Passion for what we do.

Review from Legal Dept

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Way less internal meetings. Our internal meeting culture is a real drag down on the morale of the team

Review from Sales Dept

I think a little bit more needs to be done for employees that are remote from circumstance rather than choice

Review from Customer Success Dept

Review Sentiment at Stack Overflow

96
96%
4
4%

About Stack Overflow's Environment

A-
78/100

Where This Score Ranks Stack Overflow's Environment

TOP
15%

In the Top 15% of 1590 similar size companies on Comparably

TOP
15%

In the Top 15% of 523 companies in New York

3rd

3rd place versus 5 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at Stack Overflow is considered positive by 93% of employees and regarded as having a “comfortably fast” work pace by 108 employees. Relative to its competitors, Udemy, LinkedIn, GitHub, HackerRank, and reddit, Stack Overflow's environment score ranks in 3rd place. This also puts them in the Top 15% of 1590 similar sized companies (201-500 Employees) on Comparably and Top 15% of 523 companies in New York.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Experience - Entry Level
    +14%
  • Department - Communications
    +13%
  • Department - Legal
    +8%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Tenure - 2 to 5 Years
    -8%
  • Department - Marketing
    -7%
  • Department - Engineering
    -4%

How Stack Overflow's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 176 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

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7 or less9%
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On average, how many hours do you work a day?
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Extremely fast16%
Comfortably fast63%
Moderate17%
A bit slow4%
Bureaucratic0%
What's the work pace at your company?
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Positive93%
Negative7%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
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Yes0%
No100%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
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Yes55%
No45%
Do you have a close friend at work?
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5% or Less59%
5-10%28%
10-25%7%
25-50%6%
50%+0%
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