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title: "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015: The Results"
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Every year we ask our users to tell us a little about themselves. This year we asked our users to tell us a lot.

For 2 weeks in February 2015, we ran a 45 question survey. We asked where you live, what programming languages & frameworks you use, how much money you make, how much coffee you drink, and whether you prefer tabs or spaces when writing code. **More than 26,000 of you responded**, making this year's survey quite possibly the most authoritative developer survey ever conducted.

A few findings:

*   [Only 48% of you have a degree in computer science.](http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015#profile-education "Developer education")<commit_msg>Added hero image<commit_after>---
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slug: stack-overflow-developer-survey-2015-the-results
title: "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015: The Results"
tags:
 - company
 - survey
---

Every year we ask our users to tell us a little about themselves. This year we asked our users to tell us a lot.

For 2 weeks in February 2015, we ran a 45 question survey. We asked where you live, what programming languages & frameworks you use, how much money you make, how much coffee you drink, and whether you prefer tabs or spaces when writing code. **More than 26,000 of you responded**, making this year's survey quite possibly the most authoritative developer survey ever conducted.

A few findings:

*   [Only 48% of you have a degree in computer science.](http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015#profile-education "Developer education")
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