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Stack Overflow for Teams Overview

What is Stack Overflow for Teams?

Stack Overflow for Teams is a knowledge-sharing platform that facilitates the collection, curation, and dissemination of your company’s knowledge. We do this by providing a platform that’s familiar to developers, embedded into developer workflows, and closes the distance between people and the knowledge they need, using gamification to encourage contribution and engagement. The community-based platform connects knowledge seekers and domain experts through an easy-to-use Q&A tool developers already know with additional functionality built in to ensure institutional knowledge is validated, accessible, and up-to-date both now and in the future. OverflowAI, our new GenAI-powered features for Stack Overflow For Teams Enterprise, helps connect technologists to solutions faster by doing the heavy lifting of searching for technical and institutional knowledge by surfacing and sourcing answers in natural ways, in the environments developers work in.

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Stack Overflow for Teams is a knowledge sharing and collaboration platform that helps teams solve challenges at each stage of the development lifecycle. Access the knowledge you need, when you need it, to build better products.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Developers and technologists are habitually on Stack Overflow searching for solutions, asking questions to get help, sharing their knowledge, and advancing their skill sets. In fact, over 50 million developers rely on Stack Overflow with 81% visiting the site at least a few times per week. It’s critical to their career success, but not all knowledge belongs in the public domain.

That’s where Stack Overflow for Teams comes in - it’s a private instance of Stack Overflow for your company so you can discover both public and private knowledge. Since Stack Overflow is already integral to how technologists work, Stack Overflow for Teams makes it easy to share institutional knowledge in a private, central place.

Stack Overflow for Teams is used by companies of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, looking to boost productivity and collaboration with persistent, just-in-time knowledge sharing.


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Stack Overflow's public platform serves 100 million people every month, making it one of the 50 most popular websites in the world. Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers. Our products and tools help developers and technologists in life and at work. These products include Stack Overflow for Teams, Stack Overflow Advertising, and Stack Overflow for Talent and Jobs. Stack Overflow for Teams, our core SaaS collaboration product, is helping thousands of companies around the world make the transition to remote work, address business continuity challenges, and undergo digital transformation.

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5.0 out of 5
"this is my best review for Stack overflow"
there are lot of things there, but I like this platform to learn something. there are multiple questions and answers to find out solution and it is...
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"very usefully for all the tacky solutions"
For every tacky questions we have all the solution to help all the developer
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Stack Overflow teams for an associate developer"
I like the search feature, as it's a helpful way to catalogue and search previous posts for bugs, as well as their solutions.

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Verified User in Financial Services
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

active engagement; responsive team; patient regarding all the different questions (especially around governance, controls) and contractual agreements / negotiations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

I have to admit, that there wasn't really a whole lot that I didn't like. The contractual negotiations were frustrating at times but those normally are (at least the ones that I've participated in) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stack Overflow for Teams:

just do it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

centralizing collaboration between engineers and developers as well as reducing the manual work associated with answering repeated questions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrew S.
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Engineering Lead
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

It leverages the existing strengths of Stack Overflow for answering your own questions, but makes it available within a team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

It would be nice to be able to scope a search within a tag.

We're still figuring out how to leverage SO for Teams to its fullest potential when it comes to our codebase. It'd be great to see prior art or how other teams do it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Knowledge sharing and transfer. Understanding all the weird edge cases of the platform, documenting, the "How do I ..." questions of the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

It presents a good ease of use experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

It could potentially include more features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Connecting to other teams with similar questions at my work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

The way Q&A lets you start building up knowledge with minimal initial time investment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Most of the features are focused on programming questions, and there are also a lot of non-programming questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Disorganized knowledgebase spread across different places and people Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Legal Services
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

The product concept itself is useful and makes a lot of sense for knowledge sharing and management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Our support experience was not what we expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sharing knowledge and providing answers to frequently asked questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Luke B.
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Technical Analyst
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Easy organisation of information. Easy to "ping" someone for more details. Ability to create Wikis on topics.

The ease of use after years of working as a community project helped to iron out many bugs from early on. I like that we can have a democracy of differing opinions or definitive answers in the same area. I like that you can edit your answer to show updates in processes, or what should be the correct answer.

I like that it gives the users the ability to self-govern. By removing that barrier, it would be possible for a setup-and-forget from the SysAdmin point of view by not being the sole person to moderate everything. Flagging helps, although I have not used it in practise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Cost. To use it as a non-profit is still quite pricey, so I can't turn my non-profit orgs to it.

Not open source - I can't install it on my own hardware if required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stack Overflow for Teams:

Allow for on-prem instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping information up to date, and allow crowd-sourced information on users with expertise in many different areas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Russ T.
RT
Software Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

It's a central place for information with good search, the ability to ask people to answer, Slack integrations, reputation (always a bonus), and the ability to link to easily other documentation sources.

Being able to follow 'tags' for the terms that apply to your teams is very valuable, as well. You can link them to Slack channels (so they are automatically posted), or just receive emails when someone asks or answers questions.

Establishing reputation for your answers is also great - it provides incentive to provide good answers, ask high-quality questions, and edit answers or questions that need just a bit more clarification or adjustment.

The high quality search on Stack Overflow is nice, too. If you lack a central search mechanism, then Stack Overflow can be a nice bridge between different sources of documentation (whether static sites, wikis, tickets, etc). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

It's easy for things to get out-of-date, but linking to other documentation (where applicable) is a good way to solve for this. It's a bit tricky to ensure that you get adoption, but with the Slack integration, it's easier to nudge people toward asking a question from Slack on Stack Overflow.

When dealing with coworkers, 'down' voting an answer or question is... Tricky, at best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stack Overflow for Teams:

Work really hard to get good adoption - make sure you're pushing people (and giving lots of Q&A sessions) to ensure that you get a broad distribution. If people don't adopt it, it can't provide value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

An easier time finding the answers to the problems that I have. Our organization has been very quick to respond to questions on Stack Overflow for Teams, which makes it exceptionally valuable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JE
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Builds on the very successful Stack Overflow Q&A model. It's a mature system that most developers are already familiar with. It also works well for non-developers as evidenced by hundreds of active Stack Exchange communities fielding questions from gardening to statistics to interpersonal skills. For a large team, SO for Teams might be the best way to share information. I'm particularly excited about articles, a new feature.

(Note: I may be given a $25 gift card for this reveiw: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/401087/why-is-stack-overflow-sending-out-emails-paying-for-reviews-on-a-service) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Teams really doesn't work without a large enough group of people participating. My guess is that as few as a half dozen committed contributors will be enough. (I'm basing this on several teams I've been part of as a former Stack Overflow employee, current moderator and community manager on another site.) The larger your team, the more likely you'll be to get enough interaction to keep people engaged. It's also important to insist people ask on SO for Teams and not just Slack or whatnot. Over time, your organization will build a corpus of answers that will really reduce time asking the same questions over and over again.

For organizations who don't get critical mass, Stack Overflow isn't the right tool. Google Docs or GitHub issues are still perfectly serviceable ways to share knowledge and you probably already have access to those tools. Documenting and knowledge transfer is hard work no matter what tool you use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

My current company isn't using Stack Overflow for Teams. They tried in the past and didn't have enough buy-in. The big benefit is that questions can be answered by anyone. Typically organizations develop knowledge silos, but if the Team is shared, those break down. It's significantly more engaging than a Wiki since questions pose a problem and answers get feedback if they help solve the problem.

I'm also using the product as a moderator on Stack Exchange. That has been an very useful way to exchange experiences moderating a wide variety of sites. It reduced the number of common questions asked in chat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sathish Kumar M.
SM
Senior Software Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

I was able to keep the code/question open without having to worry about information/any internal documentation leaked to the public. I was also able to ask questions within the organization without the fear of being treated harshly for asking naive questions. This was important because within organization such treatment can be dealt seriously and encourages people to ask questions on this platform which satisfies the very reason this platform exists as well.

In addition I like the fact that important people within the organization was able to see my answers which helped me gain recognition Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Lack of community support initially when the product was new. Sometimes it would take a long time before we get one answer.

Organization friendly medals or badges were not there but would be nice for people to be recognized Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stack Overflow for Teams:

Yes I recommend. Especially because you don't have to alter the questions unlike putting it in public domain you would rather do it within the org without altering any part of the question. This tool can also be used to create a team specific question that can be answered by geographically distributed teams. In situations where some tools are internal, we can follow topics around those tools and can be informed about questions/topics around those tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

The questions which are domain specific or organization specific were easily answered as the questions stayed within the org and not exposed to public. This is important as people answer known problems and how they can be addressed with the tools that the organization uses Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Venture Capital & Private Equity
AV
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

bi-weekly check-in and all the resources we have received on how to build the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

VC can't whitelist their portfolio companies domain, you need to single invite and then have them verify the domain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Slack integration. We can't multi-select tags to appear in a channel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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