By Willem Dehaes, former Software Developer at Proctor and Gamble
(2017-2018)
Every week, my boss checks the
number of Google searches and Stack Overflow posts I had to go through to
finish my assigned tasks. The fewer searches I do, the better my evaluation.
Said no-one, ever.
My boss cares about which
features I finish, the speed of work and the quality of my code. He doesn’t
give a damn when, how or how often I use resources like Google and SO. In fact,
he uses them himself all the time, because they are awesome and you would be a
fool not to use them.
That being said, I would like
to add that using SO does not mean blindly copy-pasting answers. Try to
understand the answers provided, and how and why they fit (or don’t fit) into
your solution. If you are a student, you will learn a lot more by struggling on
a particular problem for a while by yourself before looking at the solution on
SO. Read source code and documentation so you have a more versatile toolkit to
solve the next problem.
Edit: as Jean-Pol
Landrain pointed out, Stack Overflow can also be a good place to
interact with the creators of certain frameworks or libraries (see his comment
for an example). And sometimes the Readme or wiki in certain GitHub
repositories will explicitly point you to Stack Overflow for help or additional
documentation.
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