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PROGRAMMING AND DEBUGGING QUESTIONS DO NOT BELONG ON META. Use this tag for a reproducible problem ON A STACK EXCHANGE SITE that you believe is due to a mistake, malfunction, or programming error. Questions with this tag are NOT automatically brought to the attention of employees. To create a ticket internal to the company, a [status-review] tag needs to be added by a moderator or employee.

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Emojis in careers messaging result in ��

I apologize for this bug. We begin every spec and start every meeting with an update on emoji use in our messaging system. We have tests for this. We get alerted at night when it fails. … Bug is confirmed though. We're not sure what we want to do yet because sending emojis to employers never really occurred to us. However, times are changing. …
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Metric system on careers.stackoverflow.com

This was like bug inception, but it should all be fixed now. …
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Careers ad asking if I want to work where I already work?

See, I look at this and think: "Aren't we so smart? We found you the company you already work for, and you're clearly qualified for that position!". But really, we're not adding 2+2 because the ads …
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Careers sidebar has an incorrect location

Yes, currently this is by design, since by design we only look to IP for geo data. It doesn't mean this is how it will always be. We want to be smarter about how we deliver you jobs, and this isn't …
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Jobs front page lists jobs which are "near Brooklyn" which are far from Brooklyn

That doesn't mean we don't have a bug (which we'll look into) but that it can sometimes be inexact based on where your IP leads us. … So, this could be us getting a bad idea of where you are based on your IP or there is a real bug. We'll figure out which it is and post an update. …
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"Joel test" is translated to "Test de Joël" on French version of Careers

We'll get this fixed with our translators. We have a "do not translate" list which includes things like company names etc... Joel's name doesn't need to be translated...
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UK Careers site no different from international?

This is intentional for now. The main difference on the UK site is the ability for employers to pay us in GBP. As for the content, we have a localization company that will be helping us go through t …
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Careers 2.0: Advanced Privacy section lists employers I haven't contacted

Because we had a nasty bug. It would be shown in this section, as an option to cease communications with those companies and block them from viewing your profile. First the bug. …
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Feedback always welcome link should be renamed

Our German team likes "Kommentare sind immer willkommen". We'll get it fixed. Along with changing Meta SO to Meta SE.
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