OfferZen Developer Survey 2020

Assuming you’re with Oz, some things I noticed (just curious as to what was asked, I’m in the US, so I didn’t complete it).

CS and AppMaths/Maths/Stats/Physics is a common combination (I did a dual CS and Maths major myself). Choosing between CS and Other Stem is going to cloud the data.

What is the focus area of your degree?This question is required.
  • Computer Science

  • Other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths)
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I am with OZ :) Thanks for the feedback, Cguy. I think we potentially did group those a bit oddly. However, given how we're planning on slicing the data I don't imagine it affects us too much.
 
cguy said:
Assuming you’re with Oz, some things I noticed (just curious as to what was asked, I’m in the US, so I didn’t complete it).

CS and AppMaths/Maths/Stats/Physics is a common combination (I did a dual CS and Maths major myself). Choosing between CS and Other Stem is going to cloud the data.

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Yep, Software study path counts as "technology", lol, but pretty sure they mean something along the lines of Information Systems for it.
They also mixed some libraries and run times there with C#.

EDIT:
@pjoub06 for the IDE's, why not just go Jetbrains product? Plus I swap between IDE's constantly, I am either using Webstorm or VS Code depending on the task, then swapping to Rider for C#, and Datagrip or SQL Server Management Studio, and then when I get home I also swap to just VS for some projects, and Goland etc.

And all depends on day/what recent tasks as to what I use.
 
Johnatan56 said:
Yep, Software study path counts as "technology", lol, but pretty sure they mean something along the lines of Information Systems for it.
They also mixed some libraries and run times there with C#.
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Yeah, I have no idea what's meant there. There's no IS option, and they're probably going to have the Technikon graduates clicking STEM because they studied Information "Technology", and the CS + Stats/Maths people will randomly be clicking CS or STEM.
 
Johnatan56 said:
EDIT:
@pjoub06 for the IDE's, why not just go Jetbrains product? Plus I swap between IDE's constantly, I am either using Webstorm or VS Code depending on the task, then swapping to Rider for C#, and Datagrip or SQL Server Management Studio, and then when I get home I also swap to just VS for some projects, and Goland etc.

And all depends on day/what recent tasks as to what I use.
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Agreed. I thought it was a "select many" question too, and then suddenly I am on the next question :)
 
Thanks for the feedback and especially thanks for participating!

Passing this onto the team to make improvements to next year's survey. For the record, we do a beta run of the survey with a few dozens people to get feedback but as you know sometimes small things slip between the cracks.
 
pjoub06 said:
Thanks for the feedback and especially thanks for participating!

Passing this onto the team to make improvements to next year's survey. For the record, we do a beta run of the survey with a few dozens people to get feedback but as you know sometimes small things slip between the cracks.
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Hi Philip,

Ive sent this on to my team to complete, I'm sure they will also pass it along.

The 'select many' thing mentioned above with the IDEs also caught me off guard.

I am wondering what kind of controls are there on the personal information entered at the end? I understand the address information is to ship the shirt, but you would need to contact the winners to get their sizes anyway, so why harvest that information prematurely?

I am weary of submitting my address so I haven't submitted the survey yet. Does not providing my address exclude me if I am in the first 2000 or will I be contacted to get that information?

I also understand that the shirt is the carrot you use and you cannot publicly state whether you have reached the 2000 mark yet otherwise there would be a sharp dropoff in participation.

Just my thoughts.
 
HibiscusTunes said:
I am wondering what kind of controls are there on the personal information entered at the end? I understand the address information is to ship the shirt, but you would need to contact the winners to get their sizes anyway, so why harvest that information prematurely?

I am weary of submitting my address so I haven't submitted the survey yet. Does not providing my address exclude me if I am in the first 2000 or will I be contacted to get that information?
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Good questions! This is a concern for us internally too. We don't actually want to have the risk of leaking a bunch of personal data - that would be bad for both survey respondents and for OfferZen!

The tackle this is by:
- Splitting survey answers from personal information (e.g. address, phone, email etc) right from the start
- We also delete all the personal information once we shipped t-shirts
- Delete all information from Typeform as soon as we close the survey
 
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