What Do Developers Discuss in Their Workplace? An Analysis of Workplace StackExchange Discussions
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| author | Grech, Natasha Hossain, Md Farhad Alam, Omar |
| author_facet | Grech, Natasha Hossain, Md Farhad Alam, Omar |
| contents | Software workplaces are increasingly recognized as key spaces for professional development, where developers encounter various challenges in their roles, which they often discuss in online forums. This paper analyzes 47,368 posts on the Workplace StackExchange site, aggregating developer insights and applying topic modeling techniques. Through manual analysis, we identified 46 distinct topics grouped into seven categories: Employee Wellness, Communication, Career Movement \& Hiring, Conflicts \& Mistakes, Corporate Policies, Management/Supervisor Responsibilities, and Learning \& Technical Skills. Our findings show that approximately 30\% of discussions involve workplace conflicts, marking this as the most prominent topic. Additionally, we found that workplace culture, harassment, and other corporate policy-related issues represent significant areas of difficulty commonly discussed among developers. |
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| spellingShingle | What Do Developers Discuss in Their Workplace? An Analysis of Workplace StackExchange Discussions Grech, Natasha Hossain, Md Farhad Alam, Omar Software Engineering Software workplaces are increasingly recognized as key spaces for professional development, where developers encounter various challenges in their roles, which they often discuss in online forums. This paper analyzes 47,368 posts on the Workplace StackExchange site, aggregating developer insights and applying topic modeling techniques. Through manual analysis, we identified 46 distinct topics grouped into seven categories: Employee Wellness, Communication, Career Movement \& Hiring, Conflicts \& Mistakes, Corporate Policies, Management/Supervisor Responsibilities, and Learning \& Technical Skills. Our findings show that approximately 30\% of discussions involve workplace conflicts, marking this as the most prominent topic. Additionally, we found that workplace culture, harassment, and other corporate policy-related issues represent significant areas of difficulty commonly discussed among developers. |
| title | What Do Developers Discuss in Their Workplace? An Analysis of Workplace StackExchange Discussions |
| topic | Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07012 |